Hersekli(From Herzegovina) Arif Hikmet And His Divan(Collection Of Poems)as a Cradle in Passıng from the Classical Turkish Literature to the Modern One

In the second part of the 19th century in which the influence of the Western Literature starts to be seen on Turkish Literature, a new movement of changing and reform slowly starts in Turkish Poetry besides the efforts of Turkish poets to produce literature works. However, in this period the efforts of classic poets belonging to the eminent generation draw all the attention not to be separated from the classical style of poetry. In different periods of Turkish literature, Hersekli(From Herzegovina) Ârif Hikmet lived in the II. part of the 19th century, is generally thought as in the partisans of classical literature. As a general view, when the poet Ârif Hikmet’s Divan(Collection of Poems) is studied in detailed, his works are seen to belong to classical literature style in terms of ‘structure and style’. However, when his works are studied as a content, his poems are seen to have classical subjects like ‘religion’, ‘mysticism/sufism’, ‘woman’, ‘love’ etc…Some of Arif Hikmet’s lines and poems included in his Divan also contain new thoughts, ideas, and concepts which are found new in that period of poetry. The poet Ârif Hikmet, in some of his poems with the influence of poets who compiled poems in style of ‘Divine Wisdom’ in the period of Divan Literature, wrote subjects related to the society.

Keywords

Ârif Hikmet from Herzegovina, Encümen-i Şuârâ(Council of the Poets), Literature of Tanzimat Period,