Author(s): Yakup GELİR / Language(s): Turkish
Issue: 59/2023
Dystopia, which is the opposite of utopia, referred to with pessimism and negativity, has a wide meaning. The concept, which expresses the concerns of the individual about the time, the world, life and the future, focuses on the suppressed, limited, and unfreedom life of human beings. As a general framework, while dystopia is shaped by a pessimistic view of the future, it also deals with the negativities woven by the current conditions. Dystopia, which describes both the present and the future with negative lines, takes its place with different forms of expression. The concept, which is seen in different fields from literature to cinema, has a different position in the literary field. The expressive ability of the literary field, its imaginative richness, the diversity of meaning possibilities, its strong relationship with imagination, its premonitions about the vision of the future open a wide field for dystopia. Literary areas where dystopia is told and fictionalized, especially in novels and short stories, draw attention. Along with these, it is witnessed that dystopia is seen in some texts in poetry. One of the contemporary poets, Aydın Uzkan's poem Dystopya can be given as an example. Everything from the title of the text to its narration and from its imaginative expression to its fiction coincides with the concept of dystopia. First, after the definition of life, the outer world and other meaning patterns move around the concept. Each expression; A responsibility that overlaps with the previous and next statements, gathers the mana units around dystopia, and reveals the dystopian elements. This dystopian poem, created by dystopian elements, expands and contracts throughout the text. These dystopian elements, which spread the meaning to the environment as it expands and deepen the meaning when narrowed, constitute the strongest aspect of the text. In particular, the imaginary narrative, on which dystopian discourse is loaded, makes the text alive as content and provides different meaning possibilities to the text every time it is read. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the dystopian elements in poetry, to analyze the atmosphere of meaning they create and to determine the image.
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