Author(s): YaÅar ÅÄ°MÅEK
Cahit Kulebi (1917-1997), a poet of the Republican period, has an important place in Turkish literature with his understanding of art influenced by different formations and his poems which are fed by many sources. While expressing his emotions, the poet frequently used space, and he also included the effects of space on the man while conveying his impressions of the outer world. Moreover, he sometimes dealt with the symbols and images represented by spaces in his poems. In his poems, Külebi is mostly emphasizes Anatolia and its surroundings in his preferences regarding space. In this sense, in his poems, he deals with the villages he was born and grew up in within the context of patriotism, the places where he spent his childhood, the houses where he lived, the cities and the roads he traveled, in short, he deals with a wide geography with its all concrete and abstract values. In this paper, the man and space interaction in Cahit Kulebi's poems will be discussed with reference to Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space. So, the representations of space in poems will be explained and understood. In particular, the poems in which the motion concept is intense, which progresses from one space to another and the ones that take the reader on an internal and external journey are discussed from the perspectives of Bachelard's theory/discourse. In the paper, first of all, the function of space and then its relation to art, literature, and poem will be emphasized. Then, based on the interest of the poet with space, the contribution of the space to the inner world of the poet and to the creation of poetry will be discussed. Afterward, the scope of space perception in Kulebi's poems will be drawn and the effects of the space on the aesthetic dimension and its effects on the individual will be revealed. The poems will be explained around the reflections from space to man, from person to space, imaginary orientations and spiritual changes. Kulebi presents sections both from his own life and from the life of society in his poems through space. Although the poet, in his texts based on observation, worked on the concrete aspects of the space, he focused on abstract expression and imaginary uses in some of his poems. In his poems which are based on association, spaces sometimes turn into a house and a home, and sometimes a shelter for memories, dreams, regrets, and aspirations. The spaces in the poet, who occasionally experienced homelessness and loneliness, appear as reflectors of the concepts and themes surrounding human beings such as loneliness, homesickness, orphanage, childhood, sadness, love, joy of living, family happiness, rootlessness and alienation.
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