Abstract
Gülten Akın's Poetics
Gülten Akın, one of the first female artists of modern Turkish poetry, is a poet who flourished under the shadow of a mentality based on masculine domination. Gülten Akın creates her artistic understanding in the axis of women's sensitivity. Object to traditional female perceptions and roles, the poet aims to shout out his objections echoing in his inner realm through his poetry. In the first period of his poetry adventure, he deals with individual issues as a theme. Issues such as young maiden crisis, loneliness, alienation from the city, and hope are the elements that feed Gülten Akın's early poetry. In the poem universe of the artist, who also turned to social problems in the 1960s, social polarization and themes related to the universal human emerged. Akın deals with social issues without slipping into political discourse. That is why there is no sloganic style in his poems. The 1980s is the third period in which Gülten Akın's poetry turned towards the individual again. Influx; In this last phase of his poetics, although he sometimes takes the individual in an ontological context, he advances the human by adding old age, loneliness and death to the center of his poetry. In all three periods of Akin, she fed from folk poetry and shaped her language and style.
Gülten Akın; It forms the poetics of the universal individual in general, especially the Anatolian woman / mother, within the framework of the sensitivities of the human that leaves a mark in the inner world and occupies the mind. The subject appearing in Akın's poem does not quite match the period he lived. So it is lonely, fragile, sensitive, and objectionable. The movements in the spiritual world of the subject, who experience distress and translation from the society, the current order, and the age, constitute the focal point of Gülten Akın's poem. Gülten Akın; It creates its poetics in the context of the negative events, phenomena and understanding of the period in the context of the damage left to the women's conscience. This work was created in line with Gülten Akın's explanations in his book Poetry Düzde Siege.
Keywords
Keywords: Gülten Akın, poetry, poetics
