Abstract:

Tradition expresses the cultural accumulation which was formed within a long time in the past. The literary tradition is also in the cultural accumulation. The literary accumulations which are also defined as Literary tradition have stereotyped characteristics. It can be mentioned about two literary traditions which have some stereotyped characteristics that were formed in a long time duration in the Turkish literature. One of these traditions is the Divan literature and the other one is the folk literature. While the Modern Turkish literature was forming under the Western influence in the 19th century, a problem was occurred related to the tradition. Despite the critical views towards the tradition, the utilization of tradition in the modern Turkish literature is preferred in the course of time. Within this framework, especially in the poetry, it is seen that the poets who utilized the tradition composed successful poems and the tradition enriched their works ambidextrously. In this article, the relation between modern Turkish literature and the tradition and utilization of the tradition will be handled generally and how the verse forms of divan poetry tradition were used in the modern poetry after 1980 and the novelties brought to the tradition by the poets while using tradition will be explained with samples.

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