DİVAN EDEBİYATI GELENEĞİ VE TOPLUMCU GERÇEKÇİLİK BAĞLAMINDA ATTİLÂ İLHAN VE EMEKÇİYE GAZEL ŞİİRİ (original) (raw)

In Turkish poetry from Tanzimat to the Republic, the influence of Diwan literature diminished and modern approaches shaped by Western literature were adopted. However, many poets, such as Behçet Necatigil and Turgut Uyar, continued to be inspired by tradition. From the 1960s onwards, poets such as Attilâ İlhan brought the aesthetic elements of Diwan poetry intomodern poetry and combined this tradition with social issues. He combined the classical forms of Diwan poetry, such as the ghazal, with socialist realist content and presented them with an original approach. His blending of socialist realist poetry with the aesthetics of Diwan poetry stands out as a unique approach in modern Turkish poetry. While dealing with social injustices and the struggle of the working class, the poet enriches the structural elements of the traditional ghazal with modern content. In the poem emekçiye gazel, İlhan adapted the traditional love theme of the ghazal to the struggle of the working class. In this article, Attilâ İlhan's use of the tradition of Diwan literature in his poetry is discussed through the poem emekçiye gazel. In this context, the study discusses how İlhan combines and transforms socialist concerns with classical literary patterns. It is pointed out that in the poem, which has undergone considerable changes compared to a classical ghazal, some structural features of the ghazal, such as the rhyme scheme, have been preserved, and its content has been made original by focusing on the difficulties and struggles of the working class. The transformation of the idealised love theme of the classical ghazal into metaphors of workers from a modern perspective, thus transforming the traditional form into a tool for social criticism, is discussed. Again, in this context, the appearance of the labourer instead of the lover in Diwan poetry has been revealed. Finally, the similarities of the ode to the labourer with some of the elements of Diwan poetry and the couplets in Şeyh Galip's Hüsn ü Aşk masnavi are highlighted.