W. B. Yeats' Poem 'When You Are Old and Gray…': A Deconstructionist Study

Deconstruction is associated with the writings of Jacques Derrida, especially his earlier publications from the 1960’s where he employs the term. As a Post- structuralist, Derrida’s rise to prominence was asserted by the publication of the three books in the following year (translated as Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference). It is significant to note that all of these books are on philosophical rather than literary topics, but Derrida’s method invariably brings to the fore the highly detailed ‘Deconstructive’ works and again after borrowing these Deconstructive method have been used by critics in the reading of literary text. Deconstruction is associated with the texts of Jacques Derrida, especially his earlier publications from the 1960’s where he