• Amit Mondal

This is an attempt to make a new way to reading and analysing Arnold's poems. Here I will make a deconstructive reading and show how the image of sea as archetype misses its centre implying meanings and interpretations at different levels. The Arnold's sea is not limited within the structure of Victorian society, rather it connects past and present. The sea is same but it plays multiple functions in the poems. The sea though a large protective form cannot reach to the core of the ultimate. In this paper I will prove that sea for Arnold provides a plurality of meaning that contradicts themselves in these three poems taken together. For that purpose I will show the 'binary opposition', 'violent hierarchy' and ' differance' implemented in the poems.

Deconstruction, sea archetype, binary opposition, violent hierarchy

"Deconstructive Analysis of The Sea Archetype in Compilation of Matthew Arnold's Poems: "Dover Beach", "The Forsaken Merman" and "To Marguerite: Continued"", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no.752-754, February-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802128.pdf

"Deconstructive Analysis of The Sea Archetype in Compilation of Matthew Arnold's Poems: "Dover Beach", "The Forsaken Merman" and "To Marguerite: Continued"", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no. pp752-754, February-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802128.pdf