<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459957" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A poem deconstructing itself in homage to Barthes and Derrida (for Wendy if she can decode it)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dreamed a dream profound and wise<br>about the state of man: <br>the brain a mass of wriggly worms, <br>the mind an old tin can..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first word presents the semiotic question<br>of authorial authority: <br>is this a real person recounting<br>a ‘real’ dream, insofar as<br>dreams are ‘real’, and thus<br>presenting the authority of detached observation<br>(insofar as accepted structures of waking, <br>sleeping, dreaming, etc., are assumed, <br>thus ‘fictitious’ in an absolute sense) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or, is this a hermeneutic introductory opening<br>implying a proairetic forward movement? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">moving on rapidly to the whole first line, <br>what is the authorial stance in ‘profound and wise’? <br>is the ‘author’ asserting the semantic truth of this dream, <br>or is this a lexia which is presented to the reader to resolve<br>in his or her own reading? <br>or is simply buttressing the symbolic integrity<br>of the ontological construct presented? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">jeezus the more I read the deconstruction<br>the more I think the first verse could be true</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459957" data-title="A poem deconstructing itself in homage to Barthes and Derrida (for Wendy if she can decode it) de Michael Shepherd" data-description="I dreamed a dream profound and wise about the state of man: the brain a mass of wriggly worms, the mind an old tin can.. The first word presents the semiotic question of authorial authority: is this a real person recounting a ‘real’ dream,..."></div> </div> </div>

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