ÖNAL, Mehmet Naci Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi - Edebiyat Fakültesi - Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Turkey , GÜNDOĞAN, Ali Osman Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi - Edebiyat Fakültesi - Felsefe Bölümü, Turkey , TURHAN TUNA, Sibel Muðla Sitki Koçman Üniversitesi - Rektörlüðü Türk Dili Bölümü Baþkanlioi, Turkey

THE POETICS OF MEHMED ÂKİF

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Historical events, philosophical approaches and social changes influence poetics. In Turkey the writers who write poetics in national literature period start the term nation. Poetry takes on the task of wakening the society rather than expressing individual perceptions. Mehmed Akif is a poet who has national literature sensibility. He delays reading poem for his ideals. This is not about his being weak poet but the mission that he loads to his poetry. Akif has words to say, message to transfer and pain to tell. As a rule of national literature conception he ignores personal feelings and he represents his nation’s problem. While he focuses on content, he pushes aside the poetics. However when he sets his pen free, he is completely a lyrical poet. He is the supporter of an idealist attitude as realist literature. He does assessment and offers suggestion and statement. He has a strong prescription to rebuild the society in terms of values. It is possible to determine Akif’s poetics looking the poems in Safahat and the articles published in the journal Sebilürreşad. Thus, Akif builds his poetics on The Poets (Ash –Shuaraa) and hadiths. Consequently the main source of his poetics is verses of Koran and hadiths. He goes after the poetry which includes verses and hadiths. He expects moral and social benefit. In the study Mehmed Akif’s poetics is going to be determined through the examples from Safahat and essays on poetry.

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Mehmed Akif , national literature , poetics , pure poem , socialist poetry

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