CUMHURİYET ŞİİRİNİN 1950-1980 DÖNEMİNDE ÇOCUK TEMSİLİ: MASUMİYET, UMUT VE DİRENİŞ
REPRESENTATION OF CHILDREN IN REPUBLICAN POETRY 1950-1980 PERIOD: INNOCENCE, HOPE AND RESISTANCE

Summary/Abstract: This research article focuses on representations of children and childhood in Turkish poetry of the Republic Period between 1950-1980 and aims to show the place of children in poetic expression, layers of meaning and their relationship with the social atmosphere of the period. In poetry of the Republic period, children are not only a nostalgic element as seen in the intellectual field and social life; they are also treated with a multifaceted representation that addresses social expectations, ideological conflicts, strong family structure, poetic language searches and cultural transformations. In this context, the themes constituting childhood representations in poetry of the 1950-1980 period are analyzed under the titles of innocence, hope and resistance. In this article, how the image of the child is reproduced in the poetry of the period is addressed through content analysis, while benefiting from Stuart Hall's theory of representation and the approaches to the sociology of childhood pioneered by names such as Philippe Ariès and Chris Jenks. In this way, an answer has been sought to the question of how childhood has been addressed in poetry as a historical construction process and a cultural symbolic field. Traces of collective memory, ideological expectations and poetic transformation have been traced through the representations of children in poetry encompassed by the concepts of innocence, hope and resistance. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the child, who was mostly in the context of home, family and the inner world of the individual in the 1950s, turned into a symbol representing the future in line with social changes, conflict and communitarian ideals in the 1960s, and was coded as a symbol of resistance and resurrection in the 1970s under the influence of multipolar political and social developments. This transformation affected the discourse of poetry in terms of both structure and content; the child has sometimes been placed at the center of the language of poetry as an image of innocence, sometimes as an individual with a historical role and often as a generation representing hopes for the future.

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