READING YAHYA KEMAL AND NEŞÂTÎ IN THE CONTEXT OF YAHYA KEMAL’S POEM ‘NEŞÂTÎ'NİN GAZELİNİ TAHMİS’

Yahya Kemal Beyatlı is one of the leading intellectuals of the 20th century Turkish Literature, culture and thought world. He is a versatile personality. He is a poet, a writer and a politician. He has both prose and poetical works. Two different poetry languages are seen in his poems. In this respect, he has two oustanding books. The first one is called "Kendi Gök Kubbemiz” and the second one is “Eski Şiirin Rüzgârıyle”. There is also a poem book of his called Rubailer. "Kendi Gök Kubbemiz" is a collection of modern poems written in his new style while "Eski Şiirin Rüzgârıyle” is composed of poems written under the influence of Divan poetry. These two books differ especially in terms of the language used. Yahya Kemal, who uses simple Turkish in “Kendi Gök Kubbemiz ” is like a representative of Divan poetry in the 20th century in his poem “Eski Şiirin Rüzgârıyle”. In this study, the poem titled "Neşâtî'nin Gazelini Tahmis", which is in the "Musammatlar" section of the book “Eski Şiirin Rüzgârıyle” has been examined. As is known, tahmis (quinted) is created by adding three lines to the front of every beyit of a poet’s gazel or kaside. The purpose of the tahmis formed by the coming together of the verses of two different poets is to ensure the integrity of the subject in poetry. The beauty of tahmis depends on the success of the poet. In this study, the tahmis written by Yayha Kemal for a gazel of Neşati (one of the most successful poets in Divan poetry) with the redif "-ı bile” was examined. In the study, the art of both Yahya Kemal and Neşâtî were mentioned in terms of the tahmis mentioned and some inferences were made according to the tahmis formed by gliding from the two poets’ pens and the worlds of thought.

Keywords

Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Eski Şiirin Rüzgârıyle, Neşâtî, tahmis, comparison