AHMET MUHİP DIRANAS’IN AĞRI ŞİİRİNDE METAFORİK YAPI
THE METAPHORICAL STRUCTURE IN AHMET MUHIP DIRANAS’S POEM AĞRI

Summary/Abstract: Ahmet Muhip Dıranas (1901–1980) is one of the early Republican era poets who pursued pure poetry. His poem Ağrı is one of his most remarkable works. Dıranas frequently explores themes such as love, womanhood, loneliness, escape, death, nature, melancholy and the joy of life. He is also renowned for his innovations in syllabic verse, bringing originality to this traditional form. Dıranas gained widespread recognition for poems such as Kar, Serenad, Fahriye Abla, Olvido and Ağrı, and it is through these works that he solidified his literary reputation. He was strongly influenced by French symbolists such as Charles Baudelaire, Paul Valéry and Arthur Rimbaud, and traces of these poets are evident in many of his poems. However, it is in Ağrı that Dıranas most explicitly reveals the impact of these poets through his use of metaphor, symbolism and evocative associations. Rather than conveying his emotions directly, Dıranas uses a metaphorical mode of expression in Ağrı, creating a complex, intellectually challenging poetic structure. This study begins with a brief discussion of Dıranas and the concept of metaphorical discourse, before examining the metaphors found in the poem, such as mountain, prostration, ship, dwarf, sun, divinity and infinity. The study’s main focus is on the metaphors used by Dıranas in Ağrı and their functional roles within the poem’s overall structure and meaning.

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