Abstract:

Sezai Karakoç, one of the most important names in modern Turkish poetry, is a poet who feeds on national, religious, traditional sources and keeps his poems with innovative ideas and forms. Karakoç, who draws attention with his ideas as much as his poems, frequently compares and criticizes Eastern and Western civilizations in his works. In this context, he analyzes two civilizations very well and conceives Islam civilization outside these two civilizations. According to Karakoç, he developed an ideology of imperialism using Western science and technology. The East accepts the West as an absolute superior to the West, instead of developing and questioning itself in the face of this attitude. These ideas which are put forward in the writings of Karakoç are frequently mentioned in their poems. In this work, the poet’s poems will be determined through the thoughts, images and symbols of the "Eastern and Western" civilization, so that the poet's poems will be assessed as the universe of meanings and the attempt will be made to determine the world of connotation that the reader has woken in his mind.

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