Abstract: Kincaid’s dismantling of a poetic invocation of daffodils stands as an irredeemable act of scriptural mutilation and disfiguration. By a process of semiotic conversion and distortion, Wordsworth’s poem is transmuted into a wayward sign of yesteryear’s underbrush. We are thus confronted with the postmodern intertwisting of the signifier and the signified, an entanglement that repeals and nullifies any marker of poetic sustenance.
