Abstract:

The Second New Movement brought about important changes in Turkish poetry. Thanks to this literary movement having many innovations such as preference of an image based language, changes in syntax, tendencies to different movement, technique and point of views, Turkish poetry has gained brand-new features. Turgut Uyar also takes places beside the poets like Sezai Karakoç, Cemal Süreya, Ülkü Tamer, Ece Ayhan, İlhan Berk who have almost all the features of this movement in their poems. Although Uyar built his poetry world with different literary movements, it can be said that he presented his most competent poems in the Second New period and placed this on a more aesthetic platform. It is possible to see this, with its most apparent example, as his implicit references to the subjects such as urbanization, subconscious, and loneliness. The decency in the language of his poetry has enabled him to be regarded as an important poet not only for the Second New period but also for the modern Turkish poetry. It is also possible to exemplify this with Uyar’s poem called ‘Çok Üşümek’ having the features of the Second New movement and seen as a sad expression of being forgotten albeit being in modern life. Indeed, in this study, his poem mentioned is examined according to the poem analysis technique of Aktaş, depth of the poem is analyzed and the background of his poems under the effect of the second new is exemplified under the titles of mentality, language, structure, harmony and theme.