ABDÜLFETTAH RAUF’UN ŞİİRLERİNDE VATAN SANCISI - ÜSKÜP
SKOPJE - HOMELAND PAIN IN ABDÜLFETTAH RAUF'S POEMS

Summary/Abstract: Along with the literature that developed in the Balkans in every different period of history, poetry has dealt with and revealed the lives of nations stuck in limbo with all its vivid examples. Although poetry, as a literary genre, is written for aesthetic purposes, one of its main purposes is to describe the period of which it is a product and to make the poets' cries felt. With the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire from the Balkans, poetry left a great impact on the thought world of Turkish poets who remained beyond the Ottoman-Turkish border, and became the interpreter of their feelings, on issues such as lost land, religion, homeland, identity, existence. In our study, we will discuss the reflection of the concerns of the poet Abdülfettah Rauf, who was born in Skopje in 1910, in his poems, in which he treats revenge as a grieving conscience. The poet witnessed the periods when the most important political balances changed on the world history stage. Born in the last days of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, it was born during the First Balkan War and the Second World War. He was a child in the period when the magnificent civilization retreated after the Balkan War, and he fought in World War I and World War II until his death (1967). He lived and suffered deeply during the World War and Yugoslavia periods. Abdülfettah Rauf wrote his poems during the years that we can consider as a dark period in the historical development of Macedonian Turkish literature. When we look at his poems that have come to light in recent years, the subjects he is most concerned about are 'homeland'. In our analysis, we will discuss the problem of homeland that he puts on Skopje in his poems Yurdumda Ben ve Bende Yurdum, Şehîde-i Şedâ’id-i Üskübüm İçin, Vefâsız Yurda İlânı Nefret through the cities. With a comparative method, the influence of Yahya Kemal Beyatlı on these poems of Abdulfettah Rauf will be emphasized.

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