Abstract:

It is acknowledged that the Prose Poetry emerged in France in the mid 19th century and became a type of poetry with the poems of Baudelaire. This type of poetry came into our Literature in during the period of Tanzimat. With regard to Kaplan and Tansel’s ideas on the Sinan Paşa's Tazarru'name is regarded as the first example of the Prose Poem. Then, with both Ekrem and Hamid, both theoretical and practical examples are started to be given. With the Servet-i Fünun period, Halid Ziya's Prose poems contributed significantly to the development of the poetry. Ömer Seyfettin is a well-known figure in our Literature with his article “Yeni Lisan” and his stories. In addition to his stories, he also wrote poems, prose poems, anecdotes and memories. In the poems of Seyfettin, who said he had memorized the poems of Namık Kemal in the years when he was inclined to literature, there is the effect of Servet-i Fünun poems and Fikret’s poems. In addition to his poetry, he gave prose poems with the same effect too.( he also wrote prose poems with the same effect. Ömer Seyfettin wrote twenty-five prose poems, the first one in 1902 and the last one in 1919. In this study, the main objective is to make an evaluation on the prose poems of Ömer Seyfettin.

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