Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SELCUK UNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS, cilt.43, ss.83-98, 2020 (ESCI)
Literature is a tool that aesthetically offers the life, personal and social relations and various dimensions of these relations. An artist cannot remain indifferent to public events, changes and developments and expresses social conflicts and bonds with the unique methods of literature. He or she provides the opportunity to perceive, comprehend and identify the current situation in order to eliminate the disagreement between the interests of the individual and society. Having started his literary life with short tory experiments and taken interest in poetry after that, Kemal Ozer was influenced by the Second New (Ikinci Yeni) movement at the beginning. The theme of death occupies a significant place in the poetry of Ozer. An individual who happens to live in close quarters with death perceives this phenomenon in various perspectives such as medically, religiously, philosophically, psychologically and sociologically. The meaning of death lies not in the experience of the phenomena but rather in the perspectives on it, and the poetry of Ozer depicts death as the meeting and re-joining of mourning mothers with their beloved. For the various subjects and objects of the poems, physical death is the door to continue one's existence in the world with ideas, works and actions. This study analyses physical death, mourning of relatives after a dead person and subsequent melancholic condition as defined in the poetry of Kemal Ozer. The study also evaluates death and immortality as psychologically and sociologically experienced by individuals.