Ahmet Hâşim şiirlerinde zaman
Author(s)
Advisor
Halman, TalâtDate
2010Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
Poet and prose writer Ahmet Hâşim (1884-1933), a unique contributor to
Modern Turkish Literature, penned down various great works. Although significant
amount of scholarly research in the form of memoir and survey has been conducted
on his life and unconventional individuality, little work has been done on his poetry.
The works of Hâşim are usually associated with symbolism and impressionism.
Indeed, most of the work done on his poetry also limit themselves with a similar
deduction that his poems are either “symbolist” or “impressionist”. The lack of any
profound analysis on how these two movements affected Hâşim’s poetry in the realm
of language or what were their contributions to the content in terms of themes has led
to a critical blockage. Although in his works he explains his poetics as “poems
composed not to be understood but to be heard”, he has still succeeded to preserve
his place in the realm of literary criticism as the composer of inconceivable poems.
This work aims at analysing the matter of Time in Hâşim’s poetry and attempts to
argue what has not been argued so far. It can be considered as a new step in the
context of the interpretation of Hâşim’s poetry.
Depending on the effects of symbolism and impressionism, two distinct
concepts of time prevail in the poetry of Ahmet Hâşim. In symbolist poems the
understanding of time is subjective, synchronic and immeasurable whereas in
impressionist poems it is objective, measurable and progressive. In symbolist poems,
through uncompleted meanings and a wide range of connotations of symbols,
“Cyclical Time” is referred. Thus, the theoretical background of the thesis entails
some explanation on the key concepts of Bergson’s philosophy of time such as
“Durée” and “Memory”. In impressionist poems it can be observed that there are
certain sections in which linear time is attempted to be frozen in one frame through
the depiction of images and a cinematographic narration. Image as a visual element
is a component in these poems with the notion of linear time. The place of image in
language plane and its effect on the composition of themes will be analyzed in the
context of time.