Now let us announce me

Deconstruction

1. Plausible meaning
The poem “Now let us announce me” is a monologic utterance of a godless tyrant in which he demands the public to declare his absoluteness, while at the same
time, pronouncing his disbelief of the superiority and existence of God and his disagreement with the idea that he is equal with him, as he supposes that he is even
much more superior.

2.1.1 Deconstruction
On the surface, *insert surface interpretation *
The internal contradictions and inherent inconsistencies present in the surface meaning of the poem, where the threads of meaning began to unravel, were pinpointed
to build an interpretation from its unintended meaning and message. As a case in point, the poem’s second line “This is a grave duty” on the surface interpretation
means that the proclaiming the tyrant, the speaker of the poem, is a highly important moral obligation; however, the line disintegrates for it also means that the
persona’s proclamation is an obligation which is likely to cause great danger or harm. By using the latter as a lens to construct a new interpretation, the characters and
symbolisms in the poem were given personifications and representations.

2.2 Characters
In the deconstructive interpretation of the poem, “Now let us announce me” has two characters: the speaker of the poem, who personifies a tyrant; and God.

2.3 Characteristics of the characters

In the deconstructive reading of the poem, the speaker of the poem is a conceited tyrant who thinks too highly of himself.

I am most of all, most.

The least of me is most.

On the other hand, God, from the point of view of the tyrant, has some bit of limitation as to how he can observe everything through his eyes.

God can see almost

The most He got to almost.

2.4 Situation
The speaker of the poem, which seems to personify a tyrant, orders the people to proclaim him, and demands them to do it faultlessly as it is an obligation which is
likely to produce harm and danger.

Now let us announce me.

This is a grave duty.
Let us announce me perfectly.

He declares that he himself is absolute and faultless compared to everyone, that even the least of him is still absolute, then proceeds to describe God’s ability to see
as nearly perfect, but not absolutely infallible.

I am most of all, most.

The least of me is most.
God can see almost
The most He got to almost.

The tyrant begins to contrast himself with God, disclosing that in the past the two of them were almost alike before. His conceited characteristic and
abovementioned description of God suggests that this is due to his disbelief of God’s supremacy, existence, and omniscience.

He was almost I
Until He could not die.
I was almost He
Until I learned to disagree.

2.5 Response towards the situation

The tyrant speaker of the poem supports his command to proclaim him by contrasting himself with God, whose vision he illustrates as imperfect as a way to flaunt
his conceitedness and assert that he more superior that him. God, on the other hand, does not respond to the speaker’s pronouncement.

2.6 Theme
The poem “Now let us announce me” illustrates the unpleasantly demanding nature of immense vanity and lack of faith to the point in which one perceives himself
as greater than a superior being.
How beautiful is sleep. Let (Destablizing)

1. Plausible interpretation
“How beautiful is sleep. Let” is a poem about the encounter of young prostitute sleeping and her costumer, an old writer. The two are supposed to have a
sexual intercourse. But, in a change of mind, the old writer, who originally planned to treat himself for his birthday by having a sexual intercourse with a virgin,
lets the young prostitute sleep and relishes watching her beauty as she sleeps, considering it as now his birthday gift for himself.

2.2.1 Destabilizing
The author was displaced and replaced as the primary source of the meaning of the poem with other sources of meaning such as cultural norms, traditions,
other literatures, etc. In this interpretation of “How beautiful is sleep. Let”, the novella Memories of Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez was
employed as the primary source of meaning. In the said novella, the unnamed protagonist, an old writer, decides that he will have a sexual intercourse with a
virgin as a way to treat himself for his ninetieth birthday. The procuress named Rosa ushers him to a room in which a fourteen-year-old virgin girl, deeply asleep
due to overworking in a factory during the day and being drugged, lies ready for him, naked. The old writer, awestruck by the young virgin’s beauty, joins her in
bed and, instead of having sexual intercourse with her, watches her beautifully sleep and sings to her. By using Garcia-Marquez’s Memories of my Melancholy
Whores, the characters and symbolisms in the poem were personifications and representations.

2.2 Characters
The poem “How beautiful is sleep. Let” has three characters: the speaker of the poem who narrates the poem in the third person, the male character who
personifies the old writer from Memories of my Melancholy Whores, and the young lover who personifies the young virgin from the same novella.

2.3 Characteristics of the characters

The speaker of the poem is detached and uninvolved in what is happening to the poem. He narrates the poem in the person and describes the main characters
in the poem as well as the sleep. The old writer is described in the poem as true, giver, and swift. Meanwhile, the young lover is a selfless person who takes odd
jobs to feed her family.

2.4 Situation
The old writer watches the young lover as she sleeps. The speaker of the poem opens the poem by describing the sleep as beautiful and re-echoing the thought
of the old writer regarding the young lover’s sleep: just let it be. A reason as to why the young lover should sleep is mentioned: she overworked during the day,
the effect of it which is eventually rendered her to sleep at present.

How beautiful is sleep. Let

The young lover sleep.
After her deep
let the young lover sleep.
The focus of the narration shifts into the old writer, in which the years that he has had undergone and the challenges he faced along the way, now that they
have already passed, and the way he has become a selfless by thinking of the young lover’s welfare, a proper man as he refused to succumb to the temptation
of taking advantage of her present condition, and being intelligent for doing so, making him deserving to claim the gift of relishing the beauty of the sleeping
young lover for his birthday.

After the river

after the fever
he has been giver
He has been true
he has been swift
make him now this gift:
Let the young
lover sleep.
How beautiful the young lover in sleep.

2.5 Response to the situation

The third person speaker of the poem is solely limited to narrating what is happening and reiterating the decision of the old writer to let the young lover sleep.
By and large, he remains uninvolved in the poem’s situation. On the one hand, the old writer, as he is awestruck by the young lover’s beauty, responded to her
sleeping by just allowing her to continue doing so, as he at present considers enjoying watching her sleep is a worthy gift for himself. On the other hand, the
young lover continues to sleep.

2.6 Theme
The poem “How beautiful is sleep. Let” shows the pleasure of observing the beauty of youth in repose, in spite of the subject of the observation being
unconscious and still, and of being true and selfless, which, though underrated, are a worthy gift for one’s self.

God said, “I made a man (Deconstruction)

1. The poem “God said, ‘I made a man” is about an attempt of a brilliant musician, who was made out of clay by his God, to appraise his creator by using a
bow to test if he is capable of producing music, which misunderstood by God as an attempt to harm him.

2.1.2 Deconstruction
The internal contradictions and inherent inconsistencies present in the surface meaning of the poem, where the threads of meaning began to unravel, were
pinpointed to build an interpretation from its unintended meaning and message. As a case in point, the poem’s eight line “But in his hands held he a bow”
on the surface interpretation means that the man of gold is holding a weapon; however, the line disintegrates for it can also means that the man of gold is
holding a wooden rod with horsehairs used in playing an instrument of the viol. By using the latter as a lens to construct a new interpretation, the
characters and symbolisms in the poem were given personifications and representations.

2.2 Characters
In the deconstructive reading, the poem has three characters: the speaker of the poem who narrates it, God, and the Genius musician who is man of gold.

2.3 Characteristics of the characteristics

In the deconstructive reading, speaker of the poem narrates the statement of God in a third person and is uninvolved in the situation of poem. On the one
hand, God, who created the man of gold out of clay, is the origin of Genius. He is also capable of being curious in unorthodox ideas. On the other hand, the
man of gold is a Genius musician is a highly regal and intelligent person.

2.4 Situation
In the deconstructive reading, the third person speaker opens with God’s statement in which he recalled a meeting of his and his creation. This man he
created was made from clay; but due to his unique intelligence and insatiability, he strived to raise his condition until he reached success, not to mention
that he is physically striking.

God said, "I made a man

Out of clay -----
But so bright he, he spun
Himself to brightest Day

Till he was all shining gold

And oh,
He was handsome to behold!

However, the man of gold held a wooden rod used in playing the viol and he aimed it at God, which prompted the latter to question his intention as it is
disrespectful to him who is his origin, creator. The Genius musician replied by clarifying that he does not intend to harm his creator but only test if it is
possible to produce music from rubbing the bow against him, and pleaded God to calm down which he did. His clarification made God more curious in the
man of gold, thus he ordered him to give his name.

But in his hands held he

Aimed at me who created

Him. And I said,
 'Wouldst murder me
Who am thy Fountainhead!'

Then spoke he the man of gold:

'I will not
Murder thee! I do but
Measure thee. Hold

Thy peace.' And this I did.

But I was curious
Of this so regal head.
'Give thy name!' ----- 'Sir! Genius.' "

2.5 Characters’ response to the situation

In the deconstructive reading, as the third person speaker of the poem is detached from what is happening in the poem, he is uninvolved in the poem’s
situation. On the one hand, God, as he felt insulted and threatened, reacted to the Genius musician’s aiming of his bow at him by declaring that he is his
creator and origin. He also ordered the man of gold to disclose his name in response to his explanation which brought about a curiosity of his in him. On the
other hand, the Genius musician took his encounter with his creator as a chance to test the possibility of playing music through him. He explained to God
that he did not intend to harm him when his action maddened him, and gave him his name when he asked him to do so.

2.6 Theme
The poem ”God said, ‘I made a man” illustrates the unconventional ideas of revolutionary people to satiate man’s insatiable thirst for knowledge by
challenging the person who has authority over him, which, in a way, is admirable for it also illuminates the idea that exploration of the unknown requires
radicalism.

Much,beauty,is,less,than,the,face,of, (Deconstruction)/ surface reading

1. Plausible interpretation
The poem “Much,beauty,is,less,than,the,face,of,” is about the staunch loyalty and faith of a servant to his wicked master and his dependence on him,
which is depicted through his exaggeration on the latter’s qualities and capabilities and his warnings about them.

2.1.2 Deconstruction
2.2 Characters
On the surface meaning, the poem “Much,beauty,is,less,than,the,face,of,” has two characters: the speaker of the poem who is the servant and the dark
hero who is his master.

2.3 Characteristics of the poem

On the surface meaning of the poem, the speaker of the poem is a staunch loyalist and admirer of his corrupt master, the dark her. Meanwhile, the
hero is described by his servant as an immensely powerful and wickedly dangerous man who is capable of causing great terrors.

2.4 Situation