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Platonism theorizes that a hierarchy of opposites structure existence itself. In linguistics, it means that words have concrete definitions and some require more attention than others. Jacques Derrida criticizes this restricting belief with his own semiotic theory, Deconstruction. While Derrida doesn’t necessarily define Deconstruction in his essay on Paul Celan, Poetics and Politics of Witnessing, he provides examples of it through testimony and bearing witness. By allowing these two to be interconnected but also separate from each other, poems combat the singularity of my verbal body and allow me to see texts in a variety of meanings.

He believes destabilizing a word’s meaning frees the literary text to be read in more ways than one.

He first states poems must bear witness to an event by providing a “testamentary promise.” Poems accomplish this through the paradoxical nature of both repeating past writing techniques and “constituting its own poetics.” Derrida completely defies Platonism by requiring a dichotomy of two exclusive writing techniques and not prioritizing one over the other.

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