HİLMİ YAVUZ ŞİİRİNDE GELENEĞİN BİR UNSURU OLARAK TÜRKÜLER
FOLK SONGS AS AN ELEMENT OF THE TRADITION IN THE POETRY OF HILMI YAVUZ

Summary/Abstract: When the development of literature is defined as an uninterrupted line from past to present, it is clear that a tradition is mentioned considering this aspect of the literature. At this point, the understanding that each stop on this line contains some traces of previous stops comes into prominence. Tradition is an indispensable source in terms of poets and understandings that care about the tradition, that make more or less use of it and that transfer it to the future with a new perspective by walking over those traces is a significant criterion for them. Of course, poets understanding, criticizing and rejecting tradition have existed in the history of literature at alltimes. Contrary to those who reject tradition, Hilmi Yavuz is one of the poets who gives importance to tradition and makes use of it to turn it into a significant source of his poetry. Yavuz is one of those who try to make use of the classic Turkish poetry, folk poetry and Western poetry. For this reason, various traces of the tradition can be encountered in his poems. In this article, first, the focus will be set on the tradition and the relationship between the tradition and Hilmi Yavuz, and, second, the poems of Hilmi Yavuz will be approached in terms of folk songs, one of the significant elements of the tradition.

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