De-Constructing the Keatsean Edifice of Imagination: A Study of Ode to a Nightingale
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Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale is famous for the poet’s flight of imagination to attain the blithe spirit of the nightingale. It is considered that the poem shows the ruing poet over the misery, sufferings of the earthly existence and he finds the coveted place of the nightingale only through the medium of imagination. The present paper will negotiate the efficacy of this consideration and will examine the poem unearthing the subtext from the perspective of Derridean deconstruction to destroy the Keatsean edifice of imagination as found in the poem. The paper will serve to pinpoint the emergence of philosophically realized Keats in ode to a Nightingale.
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