Ode To A Grecian Urn

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nceived as a multiple phenomenon of essentially three elements (it is--at least--a triad, not a duality): a center, a not-center, and the relation between them (Holquist 29).
Whether Keats heart or mind is comparable to Bakhtin's center, remains an ambiguity . A Lacanian twist on the paradigm would allow that the heart, perhaps, would be comparable to the center, or self, and the mind would be equivocal to the other that exists post-mirror stage. Holquist earlier states that "Existence, like language, is a shared event"(Holquist 28). This sharing is both external and internal. Keats, in his attempt to perpetuate his temporal existence beyond his ability to draw breath, employs this triad schema, as well as the Bakhtinian principles of relations and unity, to construct a permanent poetical (read dialogical) existence in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"that consciously perpetuates vagaries and questionings, allowing his voice to be heard in dialogues far over-reaching his own lifetime.
The ambiguities, uncertainties, and still remaining questions provo...