THE POETRY LANGUAGE OF MEHMET EMİN YURDAKUL THROUGH THE WAR LITERATURE
HARP EDEBİYATI BAĞLAMINDA MEHMET EMİN YURDAKUL’UN ŞİİR DİLİ

Author : Münteha GÜL AKMAZ
Number of pages : 63-88

Abstract

Through the history of huminty, the wars, broke out because of different reasons between different societies; are among the sources which supply the literature from the age of legend to modern literature age. So, a new area which consists of works about different dimensions of wars called “war literature” has occured. Mehmet Emin Yurdakul is one of the names come to when thinking about Turkish War Literature. He was born to wars put on end to Ottoman Empire and he grew up with these wars. The poet, witnessed the social, pyschological and economic troubles because of Ottoman-Greek War, The Balkans War, First Word War and Independence War, expressed the thoughts and the senses of Turkish society from the beginning of his firs work, due to the family structure he belongs to, growing up and life style, sensitive character and he gave examples from his life. At this point, he has some characteristics in common with some man of letters who are at the same age. The aspect differs him from the others is that he tells the life, the thoughts and the senses of Turkish society with the pure Turkish and syllabic meter which formed by Turks. So, he was called “National Poet”, “the Poet of Folk”, as he formed a national wholeress in both contents and shape in his poems. Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, who has an important role in Turkish literature, is discussed in many works related to from his period to today. In these works, his poor technics of poems and poetics are the top critics to his works. However, these critics seem unfair by taking into consideration his poetics and the term when these poets were written. The only aim of the poet who shaped his works in the most depressed period of Turks lived, is not to reach the pure poem, his aim is not only express the pains but also encourage the Turkish folk by reminding the values of them. At the same time, the poet trying to shape the future by the help of the national senses and aims, struggles with the aim of being a light of hope. Because for him, the poet is not only for the beauty but also for the goodness. In this work, his language of poem that became the target of critics, has been valued by the terms of war literature. The characteristics in poem language have been identified by means of war atmosphere, shapes his works.

Keywords

war literature, Turkish literature, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, poetry language

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