مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - CEYHUN ATUF KANSU’S POETRY AND THE CHILD IN HIS POETRY

Abstract :

The new sense of poetry that emerged in Turkish Literature after 1980 hasn’t been able to avoid being continuation of the old. Although it progressed from abstract to concrete at Tanzimat reform era, failures that occurred while becoming modern were even a little recovered at Servet-I Fünun Era. Anatolian people’s taking part in the literature that began with National Literature took place in republican period. In an environment where Garip Movement, which began in 1941, and social realists dominated, Ceyhun Atuf Kansu composed poetry idiosyncratically.Kansu’s art began to take shape in Ankara, where he spent his childhood during Independence War. He developed his nationalist identity in İstanbul, where he attended Faculty of Medicine. He is deeply loyal to Atatürk’s populism principle that’s why he often mentioned society and its problems.“The child” and “childhood” have a place in the poetry of Kansu, who was a podiatrist. The poet had a great sensitivity towards children, he saw as future’s adults. He had a lot of poems, which were directly written for children. Kansu’s view of human is universal. Whatever their names, nationalities, religion are, he is with the one who is hard done by. Considering brotherhood of people, he is out of patience for bedevilled people like Latin American people and the Vietnamese and especially the oppressed children.The aim of the study is to define Kansu’s sense of art briefly and to catch his point of view towards the child in his poetry. Within this context, after the introductory of this study, Kansu’s place in Turkish Poetry and his sense of art have been mentioned briefly and how he approaches the theme “children” has been discussed.