HUMOUR IN CEMAL SÜREYA’S POEMS

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Humour means jokularity, hilarity, derision et cetera. Different forms of it were used in our poetic history. Humour was used in Divan (Ottoman) Poetry, Tanzimat -reform- Era and Garip -strange- Movement and also it was explicitly used by Cemal Süreya, one of the İkinci Yeni -Second New- Poets. Cemal Süreya used humour funcionally in his poems. He applied for humour to defend himself against dolent and tragic events and situations that he confronted in his personal life. He maked social events and political authority subject to his humour. He expressed his objections and oppositions towards governing vs governed conflicts and ideological approaches through humour. In this article, the sources of humour in Cemal Süreya’s poems will be determined and functions of humour will be analyzed.

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Humour , poem , Cemal Süreya’s poem , source of humour , function of humour

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