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Decomposing Figures Emma Durman and Goethe's Rosicrucian poem "TheOriginally published in 1986. The ghastly fate of a drowned man brought to a lake's surface in Wordsworth's ""Prelude"" typifies a fundamental pattern in Romantic writing, argues Cynthia Chase. Disfiguration involves not only a departure from representation but a disruption of the logic of figure or form, a decomposition of the figures composing the text. Ultimately it manifests the conflict between a work's meaning and its mode of performance. By