Abstract
The Poet Directed Republican Poetry: Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
Yahya Kemal, one of the top person of Turkish literature, is a highbrow man who has taken place in our literature with his poems even though he wrote several articles in many of the literary genres such as memoirs, portraits, articles, essays, letters, criticism, conversations, and history. Yahya Kemal is one of the poets who have tried, scanned and reached the perfection possibilities of language in his poems. He has thought a lot about the components that make up poetry, gone over each component and made several proposals on this subject. By following the history of Turkish meticulously, he found the impressive mysteries used by the nation for centuries and adapted them in his poems. To better understand the art and poetry of Yahya Kemal, the theories are very important for his literary personality. In this study, by considering the poems and proses written by Yahya Kemal, the basic theories that shape his literary personality were determined. It is thought that the findings will contribute to show the portrait of the poet and writer who has a special place in Turkish literature and to make sense of his poems. To better understand the art and poetry of Yahya Kemal, the theories are very important for his literary personality. In this study, by considering the poems and proses written by Yahya Kemal, the basic theories that shape his literary personality were determined. It is thought that the findings will contribute to show the portrait of the poet and writer who has a special place in Turkish literature and to make sense of his poems.
Keywords
Yahya Kemal, poetry, Republic, theory, literature.
