Binary Oppositions in Robert Frost’s the Road Not Taken (1916) and The Armful (1928)
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
A unidirectional thinking might make one lose many other or other experience. One of the strategic options not to lose so lies in the ‘structuralist’ approach. Structuralism is that probe with which, the reader is both delighted and challenged by the nuances of language. It allows the readers an opportunity to travel beyond the conventional dualisms that direct the thinking. Comprehending the process of destabilizing the binary oppositions can make one, a competent reader to understand the basis of literary aspects and combinations in the text. It helps in developing potent layers of meaning for a more refined analysis, through a better classification of the thematic features of a text. It also assists in realizing the significance of maintaining vital cultural ideas, and at the same time, rising above cultural stereotypes that may be conflicting to keep pace in the progressing world. It also prepares the reader to look through the ‘given’ constructs in the world, to distinguish between appearance and reality. The present paper attempts to look at this concept of ‘binary oppositions’ in the poems of Robert Frost namely; The Road Not Taken and The Armful.
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Madhavi Godavarthy
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