The Act of Reading a literary text has become difficult over the years. This is because the reading of literature involves three the authority who creates it, the text itself and the reader (or the critic) at a time and our perception of these three has changed in recent years. From Eliot, Richards and Leavis, the pioneers of twentieth century criticism to John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, William Empson and William Wimsatt, the New critics of U.S.A. in the forties, we get a shift in emphasis from the author to the text, a clear departure from the empirical or biographical criticism of the nineteenth century. In the second half of the twentieth century the critical revolution began with the linguistics of Ferdinand de-Saussure and Roman Jakobson, the structuralist authropology of Claude Levi-Strauss.