Abstract:

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901-1962); as a researcher, poet, writer and critic, he has an important place in Turkish literature. He seeks excellence in understanding of art with the desire to write pure poetry. Due to the semantic closure and the intensity of the symbols, his works are not the kind that can be easily perceived. Therefore, sometimes the text and sometimes the author/poet-focused examination methods were used. In this work, the problems of existence in his poems and the issues that brought about the loneliness related to it were mentioned while Tanpınar's poet identity was emphasized. His works have been tried to be understood by referring to literary figures and their artistic understandings which are effective in developing Tanpınar’s poetical understanding. Furthermore, in the center of dream and time sense, attention also has been drawn to the formation of the images he used and the reflection of the psychoanalytic approach in his poems.

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