Machine summary:
"Here, after brief consideration of the controversial ideas on the main argument of the poem, I do attempt to deliver Donne’s notions of religion and art as represented in "The First Anniversary".
As it is seen Donne by taking corruption of world back to time of original sin deconstructs not only the idea that her death was cause of world’s decay but he questions the very idea that once "she" was center of the world.
Hence constant deconstruction of "she’s" stature is held throughout the long narrative of "The First Anniversary" till the last section that Donne comforts us by claiming that "she" "of whom is meant what ever hath been said" is not dead but actually her death is her second birth.
Therefore, Donne though deconstructs notion of "she" as center and heart of world as well as her death as the cause of corruption of the whole world, he establishes the idea that "she" is not lost but restored to true life through "Mid-Wife death".
Just as Derrida did deconstructed Western knowledge by reversing the binary opposition present/absent, Donne first deconstructs the illusions about "she" by questioning "she" as the transcendental signified of the world then in order to restore her in his poetry takes benefit in his new notion of art.
The art itself as The First Anniversary is deconstructive and hence its very idea inherent in its chain of signifiers is deconstructive in a way that never succumbs to any specific meaning or interpretation.
Donne through practice of The First Anniversary indicates his own notion of art which is a counter way for evading corruption inherent to world."