Derrida's Deconstruction

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                  This blog post is one of my academic activities based on Derrida's Deconstruction.
Here i am sharing my views on What is Deconstruction.

          First of all Derrida ask some questions that, Is it possible to define something.? What are the limits or to what extent can we define something.? Derrida is difficult Philosopher to read and his term "Deconstruction" is even more difficult to understand. Deconstruction is not distractive activity but an inquiry in to the foundation.

Structuralist critic refer every text or every work by its meaning but post-structuralist can not see the texts or work by its meaning. They believe that every person's thoughts are different so and their thinking is also different , For example I read one book and same book was also read by someone else so according to me the meaning is different but according to others the meaning is different from mine so its called free play of meaning. Means the word is only word we give them different meanings. For example there is word 'Discipline', this word is only word but we gave its meaning there is different meaning of this word like discipline means branch of knowledge or the other meaning is someones good or bad behavior. What connects a word with its meaning or as single with its meaning is the convention and the convention is always social. Derrida points out that the meaning of the word is nothing but the other word. Meaning of one word is set of another words. One word leads to another word and that word leads to yet another...and finally we never come out of the dictionary. We can not find a particular meaning of any word. Its nothing but our illusion that we know the meaning of the word. So the meaning is always postponed. And finally we can say that the meaning is nothing but an illusion.

Wordsworth's most beautiful and Famous poem "DAFFODIL"

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       This blog is all about my favorite Poet and his wonderful and most famous poem. Poet is major English Romantic poet Wordsworth. As we all know that he is the most famous poet and his most of poem is about Nature, So we can say that he loved nature and natural things. William Wordsworth was born at Cocker-mouth, a town which is actually outside the lake district, but well with in hail of it.
         
        At the University he composed some poetry which appeared as "An Evening Walk" (1793) and "Descriptive Sketches" (1793) . In style these poems have little originality. Wordsworth and Coleridge launch their joint publication " Lyrical Ballad" (1798). His other works are,

                        * " Prelude "
                        * " Daffodils "
                        * " The Solitary reaper "
                        * " The green linnet " 
                        * " Resolution and Independence "
                        * " Ode to Duty "

     These all works are very famous and popular in it's own way. My one of the favorite poem is "Daffodils." This simple poem, one of the loveliest and most famous in the Wordsworth canon, revisits the familiar subjects of nature and memory. The plot of this poem is very simple, depicting the poet's wandering and his discovery of a field of daffodils by a lake, the memory of which pleases him and comforts him when he is lonely, bored or restless. 
       
      The speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural object, a cloud- " I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high..." and the daffodils are continually personified as human beings, dancing and " tossing their heads " in " a crowd, a host."


                          " DAFFODILS" 
1st stanza :
I wandered lonely as a cloud 
That floats an high o'er vales and hills'
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

             In this first the speaker describes a time when he meandered over the valleys and hills," lonely as a cloud." Finally, he came across a crowd  of  daffodils stretching out over almost everything he could see, " fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

2nd stanza :
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

           In second stanza the speaker goes into more detail about the daffodils. They reminded him to the Milky Way, because there were so many flowers packed together that they seemed to be never ending. The speaker guesses that there were ten thousands daffodils, which were " Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

3rd stanza :
The waves beside them danced;but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay;
In such a jocund company:
I gazed- and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

In third stanza the speaker compares the waves of the lake to the waves of the daffodils and decides that even thought the lake is "sparkling" the daffodils win because they have more "glee." He then comments that he, like any other poet, could not help but be happy " in such a jocund company."

4th stanza :
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure;
And dance with daffodils.

       In fourth and final stanza the poet describes what he gained from the experience. Afterwards, when he was lonely or feeling "pensive", he could remember the daffodils, seeing them with his "inward eyes."    

   So here I am sharing my Favorite poem with you all read it and enjoy...

Structuralism and Literary Criticism

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                  This blog post is one of my academic activities based on Structuralism and Literary Criticism by Gerard Genette.

              In literary theory, structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure. For example, a literary critic applying a structuralist literary theory might say that the authors of West Side Story did not write anything "really" new, because their work has the same structure as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In both texts a girl and a boy fall in love and conflict is resolved by their death.

                By applying this theory I tried to analyse some typical T.V serials which has same structure of story. For example typical "Saas Bahu" serials like, 
 1) Saath Nibhana Saathiya:           2) Mere Angane me :



3) Kuch Rang Pyaar ke Esebhi

              So in this type of daily sops story has same structure. Love at first sight and than the mother of hero and the father of heroine has problem with this. Than hero and heroine get married and than the mother in law has problem with heroine and than fighting goes on. We can find this type on typical stories in Indian Television.

           Another examples are like, Crime Patrol and Saavdhan India.

                         In both Crime T.V series we find same concept or we can say same story Structure. First crime attempt and than police investigation starts and than they show whole things from start to end explain in flash back technique. And here we also find one other similar thing that in both series crime was done by own family members or Friends, Lover.