Derrida's Deconstruction In Keats Ode On Grecian Urn

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It seems that there is a presentation of Derrida 's deconstruction in Keats ' Ode on Grecian Urn. Ode on Grecian Urn was written in May 1819 by John Keats and published a year later when Keats died in February 1821. It is a trying to refrain from traditional ways of looking at world in order to create different monitoring. The term Deconstruction first came from Jacques Derrida 's paper "Structure, Sing, and play in the Discovers of Human Sciences" .Base on Derrida 's deconstruction a writer is not able to express his intention through his writings. Therefore a gap between sender and receiver is created, which makes duality and ambiguity. Keats in his ode expresses, in state of negative capability, that this duality is necessary. The deconstructive critics allocates that the meanings are created through 'difference ' and 'opposition '. Keats ' ode is example of mysteries and doubts. The assumption of deconstruction was begun from concepts of 'difference ' and 'binary opposition '. This paper aims to study the aspects of 'Deconstruction ' in 'Ode on a Grecian Urn '. Derrida 's deconstruction can be seen in Keats ' Ode to the Grecian Urn. The poet expresses his feeling about imaginative world of art, in contrast to the reality of life when he watches an engraved urn. For Keats imagination is a way to understand real life. This contradiction between ideal and reality is one of the elements of Deconstruction. "Deconstruction declares that has an almost infinite number

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