Abstract:

Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, lived in a period following the classical Divan Literature, which had completed its historical process; namely in the 20th century despite this. He is one of the master poets who managed to succeed in employing the Divan poetry tradition in terms of form and the prosodical meter in the best way. As regards to his period he generally used plain, smooth, natural and lively Turkish. Yahya Kemal extremely attaching importance to musical harmony in his poems and by means of applying this principle in his poetry, proved to be one of the most distinguished poet not only in the 20th century but also in all Turkish literature.