@article{2017,title={Mythological Elements in Can Yücel’s Poems},abstractNode={Mythology is one of the prominent and rich sources of literature. Mythological elements have been used in poetry and novel as well as in fine arts such as music, painting, sculpture and architecture. Mythological elements have been used via their symbolic powers in literary works by the people who share common points. This situation is one of the reasons why mythological elements have existed for ages. Today, mythology has maintained its existence that influences world and Turkish literatures as an effective element. Can Yücel is both one of the important poets in modern Turkish poetry after 1950s and a translator. In his poetry, he combines different elements such as irony, humour, slang, politics, nature and woman together with mythology. This study aims to trace the myths on the character level in Can Yücel’s poems: “Keçi Masalı” (A Goat’s Tale), “Hıdrellez”, “Yunani Bir Sone” (A Grecian Sonnet), “Pandora’nın Kutusu” (Pandora’s Box), “Seng-i Derya”, and “Prometeus, Bir Hırsız” (Prometheus, A Thief). Archetypal criticism whose job is to identify those mythic elements that give a work of literature a deeper understanding and products of ‘collective unconscious’ is employed to analyse the poet’s use of mythological heroes in his poems. Carl Gustave Jung’s views on archetypes have been taken into consideration in order to understand the poems better. For this reason, the study approaches the poet’s use of mythological elements critically to consider the usefulness of them.},author={Emine KULUŞAKLI-- Suat KULUŞAKLI},year={2017},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}