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    Decontaminative Readying of Sonnet 18

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    The document provides instructions on how to perform a deconstructive reading of a poem. It explains that deconstruction examines a work in the context of other works and seeks to understand why the work was created by analyzing its historical context. For sonnet 18, it recommends determining the surface meaning of the words, then examining when and why Shakespeare wrote it based on the cultural norms and his lifestyle at the time. A video is also provided performing a deconstructive reading of sonnet 18.

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    The document provides instructions on how to perform a deconstructive reading of a poem. It explains that deconstruction examines a work in the context of other works and seeks to understand why the work was created by analyzing its historical context. For sonnet 18, it recommends determining the surface meaning of the words, then examining when and why Shakespeare wrote it based on the cultural norms and his lifestyle at the time. A video is also provided performing a deconstructive reading of sonnet 18.

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    Decontaminative Readying of Sonnet 18

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    Deconstructive Reading of Sonnet 18

    Deconstruction

    Deconstructionism is a technique of literary criticism which seeks to analyze a work as thoroughly as


    possible as it pertains to other works. In other words, according to creator Jacques Derrida,

    “there is nothing outside the text”

    Every written source is in itself a linked text; Derrida believed that there was no objectivity possible. The
    main aim is to understand why the work was created, by examining the “context” of its creation:
    history, era, culture, society, and other similar works.

    How to Deconstruct the poem:-

    To analyze a poem using deconstruction, the first step should be to place down the superficial meaning;

     What do the words say?


     How does the poem speak to you?

    Most examinations of poetry focus on the surface meaning without digging deeper. You should try to
    find out where and why the poem was written, and for what purpose: was it a response to cultural
    norms, or a reflection of self-examination? Who was the writer, and why was this poem, at this time, so
    important?

    Historical Context

    The historical context is also important. Many poems directly reflect public sentiment of the time, while
    others deliberately go against the popular sentiment. Use your knowledge of the writer and his/her
    lifestyle to understand how the poem reflects the times.

    Deconstructive Reading of Sonnet 18

    Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

    BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

    Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

    Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

    And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

    Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

    And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;

    And every fair from fair sometime declines,

    By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;

    But thy eternal summer shall not fade,


    Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

    Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

    When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

    So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

    Decontaminative readying of sonnet 18 by Dilip Barad video

    https://youtu.be/ohY-w4cMhRM

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