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The Melancholic Purgatory of The ‘Sisypus’ Mountain: The Child - Death Values in The Poem Akif Paşa/Recaizâde Mahmut Ekrem
The social, psychological and artistic breakdowns created by the Tanzimat in Turkish society are beyond a regulation. Especially for the society that tries to reinterpret its acceptances, the break occurred far beyond what was thought. The intellectual identity that most of the authors of the period carried at the same rate; it caused them to feel these changes and transformations more deeply for them. Death is one of them. The shaking of Islamic assumptions that have been widely adopted in the society and the perceptions such as positivism, realism, determinism and rationalism have created multidimensional gaps. Philosophy, which was not discussed and talked about before, has turned into the material of art. In spite of everything, the continuing in-between, double perception is a general thought uneasiness. We see that the same duality is experienced in poets' approach to death. The ongoing conflict between believing and not believing has also affected the aesthetic material of art. Although it is fiction, the belief that determines the behavioral practices of poetry has come to a point where it constantly questions itself. It is to witness a geography of poetry where metaphysical tremors are wandering when it comes to its own dilemmas.
Child and death are two words that can not be harmonized with each other even with the associations at the standard-meaning dimension of the language. Mostly, they have such joint meaning-fields as to call life and death. Death is the Wailing-wall of the unnecessity of the human occupation as Sisypus has tried in vain in mythology. Human uselessly tries to compress the endless universe of the dream into a finite time. Two of the reorganisation-period writers of the Turkish Literature are Akif Pasha and Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem living that theme the most intensively in reality and carrying it as a basic source to their artistic perception. These poets commenting the death and especially child-deaths seriously have written in a sense the imaginary manifest of the death. They have tried to establish their poetry-world among the belief-denial, the east-west, and the cultural conflicts.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Sısypus, melancholic, Akif Paşa, Recaizâde Mahmut Ekrem, child, death