The aim of this paper is to investigate these binary oppositions through these two important poems of Robert Frost. Robert Frost deconstructs this binary opposition of fire and the opposition. Briefly, to the title of “Fire and Ice”, it looks like a binary opposition like black and white, men and women, hell and heaven, demon and angel, and bad and good. If this poem is observed in details, it will show how Roberts Frost deconstructs about the end of world.
Also Frost ‘s another poem “Fire and Ice” that commonly people say it is about the end of world, can be summed up from the first line that written by “Some say the world will end …” Continued by the contents that show how it will end. Did Frost make a fundamental error in his poem or did he deliberately write the last line in a clever attempt of chicanery to winnow out the scholars from the masses, or is he commenting on the illusion of independence, freedom, and originality in American society? I suspect the latter but that is a thesis for a different essay. High schools have been using this poem to motivate students for decades, but what teachers and students never seem to notice is that both roads are essentially equal therefore there is no moral to the story about the road less traveled making all the difference. Therefore, deconstruction is a way of reading text with the result that text cannot sign a meaning in a hierarchy or single truth (Ratna, 2004:222, Al-Fayyadl, 2005: 68, Norris, 2006:14).A deconstructive reading of Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” reveals that the road not taken doesn’t make any difference at all.
A sense or a meaning cannot be limited by a sign, because the sign just descends the real meaning. If this poem is observed in details, it will show how Roberts Frost deconstructs about the end of world.ĭeconstruction itself is refusing of logo-centrism that centers the hierarchy in a binary opposition of a sense or meaning. A deconstructive reading of Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” reveals that the road not taken doesn’t make any difference at all.