ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book points the assumption that Deconstructionism does not take relativism as a norm, a significant reason why it has been criticized in the past. It tries to show that this is not the case, that Deconstructionist criticisim may assume strong positions and make assertions. One assertion that the book attempts to reintroduce was that Thomas Hardy's poems are not predominantly Romantic but anti-Romantic. In Hardy, contrary to Romantics, nature ceases to be a unifying principle, provider of truth. Hardy's voice differs from the poetic voice in the Romantic tradition, which is highly personal and subjective. As a whole, Hardy's poetic language should not be considered fully representational because it reveals a problematic subject/object relationship. In almost all his major works, Jacques Derrida implies that deconstructive criticism destroys the long cherished metaphysical oppositions such as subject/object, internal/external, self/non-self.
