Abstract:

The family has an important role in an individual's upbringing, emotional development, self-realization and determining his/her position in society. Loss of family or loss of one of the family members interrupts the character and emotional development of the individual, creates traumas in his/her psychological life and may prevent the individual from reconciling with the society. Making sense of the loss and transforming it in some way is how the individual learns to cope with this pain. In Turkish literature, we encounter many artists and valuable works as a result of the loss of family members and the artist's coping with this loss and transforming the emotional deprivation it creates. Tevfik Fikret, a member of the Edebiyât-ı Cedîde community, lost his mother, then his sister and father at a young age. The loss of family members caused significant changes and transformations in the poet's life and works. The emotions felt by the poet can be revealed by following the projections of this loss in Tevfik Fikret's works. From this point of view, it can be determined what family means to the poet. This study focuses on the words that express the family and its members encountered in Rübâb-ı Şikeste (Broken Instrument), and from this point of view, it is tried to reveal the world of meaning and image created within the framework of family image through family members and close relatives such as mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, uncle, etc. in Tevfik Fikret's poems.

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