Or, second, it may be that, by projecting a similar method on to a wider screen, the poem might serve as evidence for the deep structure of all human thought, which then becomes the real object of the critical enquiry, to be organized, along with other anthropological data, into conclusions about the nature of human beings and their societies. This is the way in which the movement known as ‘structuralism’ proceeds: from text to deep structures of thought, and thence to conclusions about a reality which lies beyond ordinary consciousness.
