the road not taken under deconstructive view

as a method of textual analysis, deconstruction involves close reading of works of different types to reveal incompatibilities between the explicit and implicit planes of discourse and limitless interpretation of meaning in a text. because of the hierarchy that frost sets up, the road not taken is an ideal piece for deconstructive analysis. this paper is an analysis and a breaking down of this poem into its various elements and a close examination of those elements, especially the elements that most need examination because of the difficulties, ambiguities, or problems that they pose. it is revealed through this analysis how the poem can be approached from a deconstructive point of view that requires moving beyond individual phrases. the poem’s overt ideological project rests on some binary oppositions that can be deconstructed by contradictory textual evidence, that conflict with or undermine these hierarchies. it is hoped that the results of the current analysis may offer some fresh insight into the poem and shed some light on the appreciation of it from a different perspective, which is based on deconstructing the poem.