MODERNISATION, DEPRESSION AND ALIENATION THEMES IN İLHAN BERK'S EARLY POEMS Cover Image

İLHAN BERK'İN İLK DÖNEM ŞİİRLERİNDE MODERNLEŞME, BUNALTI VE YABANCILAŞMA İZLEKLERİ
MODERNISATION, DEPRESSION AND ALIENATION THEMES IN İLHAN BERK'S EARLY POEMS

Author(s): Vedi Aşkaroğlu
Subject(s): Turkish Literature
Published by: Kültür Ajans Tanıtım ve Organizasyon
Keywords: İlhan Berk; Early Period Poems; Modernisation; Individual; Depression; Alienation;

Summary/Abstract: People's livelihood matters have always been an integral part of literary production in almost all eras. Human beings, who have to find out the meaning of their existence, attempt to recognise themselves and make their existence meaningful by getting to know the conditions and happenings around them. II. Yeni Poetry presents the tragic of city people, who are forced to a new attempt to find out the meaning of life in the face of modernisation. In his early poems, İlhan Berk focuses upon the depiction people, who become alienated in the face of economic hardships in the cities, through the portrayal of workers, women, young girls and children. People from lower economic scale are depicted as unhappy, hopeless, depressed and alienated in his early poems. In this article, how the themes of depression and estrangement are felt by the individual in İlhan Berk’s early poems, focusing on the effects of modernity, will be examined and analyzed.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 61
  • Page Range: 20-29
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Turkish
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