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Setting up a new concept which can disintegrate what has been occupying the highest order of thoughts using the name of the logos, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gattari, in their book named A Thousand Plateaus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia, designate it the nomos which is to be placed opposite to that hierarchical stratum. Though their work arrays themselves in the major trends of twentieth century concepts originating from a simple binary system which comprises the interplay of two sets of contrasts, they are useful when we try to capture the subtlety of the fluid nature of the nomos's strategy when to constantly undermine the rigid norms of the State space. The clear distinction of bifurcation--the gridded State space and open-ended space of the nomad--is taken advantage of by the analysis of the three major characters in the poem--the Knight, the Lady, and the narrator. The Knight represents the State space with his efforts to identify her in his conceptual schemes and to define her using the terminology of courtly love, ordering her status in the fixed hierarchical system of the chivalric world. Nevertheless she shakes the foundation of the root-based thought with the idea of rhizome, acting like a “war machine,” using her body as a good weapon to de-territorialize Knight's homogeneous world. His efforts to agglomerate her diverse acts in a semiotic chain of the logos always fail, because he is always “palely loitering” outside the life of immanence--that of the nomad. Keats, however, was wise enough to realize the extremity of confrontation of the two opposites--the cosmos and the chaos--and even much wiser than Deleuze and Gattari in his subtle handling of the narrator who is working as a mediator, integrating them under his world of chaosmos, the final site of enlightenment.