DECONSTRUCTIVE READING IN LANG LEAV’S POEM “ALL ORNOTHING”

The poem ―All or Nothing‖ is a poem that shows no gendered words. This condition brings some confusion about the kind of love which is conveyed by the poem. As the kind of love is unclear, the meaning of the poem also seems unclear. That is why a method for uncovering all possibilities of meaning should be conducted. Through deconstruction, people will be able to think freely and creatively as deconstruction believes that there is no underlying structure that limits the interpretation of text. Deconstruction consists of provisional readings for uncovering the usual meaning and critical reading for seeing the possibilities of multiple meaning. The research is a qualitative research which is conducted with descriptive qualitative analysis and objective criticism. The data collection technique is close reading. The research result shows that meaning in the poem tends to shift and be fluid because there is no absolute structure or discourse that can govern a text when it is separated from its author or origin. In the first analysis with binary oppositions, it is acquired that the poem conveys about how man should love their woman wholly where the deconstructive reading shows that female should love their female partially. The imbalance structure between the binary is the source of redoubling of meaning in the poem.