A NEW NAME IN THE HISTORY OF TURKISH POETICS: MURAT KAPKINER AND EXAMINATION OF WORK TITLED SAYING SOMETHING ON POEM


Although poetics has been used in relation to other branches of art, it is an area where more literature and more specifically poetry focuses. It answers questions such as what poetry is, how we can distinguish it from other arts or genres, what features should be included outside the genre of poetry. When we focus on a literary work, we fall within the boundaries of literary criticism, whereas when we focus on what the literary work is, we enter the field of poetics. When the names composing poetics in the new Turkish literature are searched, firstly the poets, such as Ahmet Haşim, Orhan Veli Kanık, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Asaf Halet Çelebi and Salah Birsel are remembered. Recently,the scholars composing new poetic texts are being encountered. Murat Kapkiner, who is known in terms of his novelist and poet aspects, added a new work to our poetic knowledge with his work titled Şiir Üzerine Bir Şeyler Söylemek published in 2001. Murat Kapkıner thinks in his poetics on the following : What is poetry ?, Who is a poet ?, What is the function of poetry ?, How is poetry composed ?, What are the characteristics of universal poetry?, The problem of meaning in poetry, poet's education, poetry reader, the purpose of poetry… ” In this article; after providing information about topics such as the definitions brought by Murat Kapkıner to poetics, the poet and the functions that the poet attributes to the poem, the emotions experienced by the poet during the creation process of poetic, communication of readers with the poetics and the poet and the problems experienced in this process, the problem of meaning in the poet, the process of poet in improving himself, it is attempted to answer the questions about the position of Kapkıner in Turkish poetics and his contribution to our poetic knowledge.


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Poetics, Modern Turkish Poetry, Murat Kapkıner.

Author : Abdullah HARMANCI
Number of pages: 1879-1891
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.36922
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature
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