The Projection of Exile in Poetry: A Semiotics Approach to Özkan Mert’s poems titled Ülkesinden Ayrılan Bir İşçinin Türküsü and Bir Mültecinin Mektubu Cover Image

Şiirde Sürgünün İzdüşümü: Özkan Mert’in Ülkesinden Ayrılan Bir İşçinin Türküsü ve Bir Mültecinin Mektubu şiirlerine Göstergebilimsel bir yaklaşım
The Projection of Exile in Poetry: A Semiotics Approach to Özkan Mert’s poems titled Ülkesinden Ayrılan Bir İşçinin Türküsü and Bir Mültecinin Mektubu

Author(s): Medine Sivri
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Semiology, Aesthetics, Turkish Literature, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Özkan Mert; Semiotics; Exile Literature; Superficial Structure; Deep Structure;

Summary/Abstract: In the current study, it will be tried to reread the poems titled Ülkesinden Ayrılan Bir İşçinin Türküsü and Bir Mültecinin Mektubu of Özkan Mert, who is known as an exiled poet, with a semiotics approach. Considering the poems of Özkan Mert, who is known as an “poet of the world” and contains different imaginary structures and a different language usage, with their stylistic and contextual structure will also make contribution to the “exile literature” that is argued recently. During the analysis of poems, the deductive method proceeding from the superficial structure to deep structure will be practised and finally the poems will be compared about their semantic structures.

  • Issue Year: 2/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 229-248
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish