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Mythology has been an important place in the literature of many nations for centuries. Many concepts in this field create new perspectives for the imagination of the meaning diversity and depth of literary species by giving a wealth to the literary world. In this article, it is necessary to pay attention to the relationship between poetry and mythology, since the mythological elements are discussed in poetry. There is a hundred-year relationship between mythology and poetry. Both of them are the oldest in human history. The poetry, known as the oldest of literary species, is close to many literary and philosophical currents and disciplines of science. The most important aspect of the relationship between poetry and mythology is both the poetic formation of myths and the move to the future through poetry. In Western and Eastern literature many mythological subjects are processed. There are many poets and writers in the Turkish literature who benefit from the outcome of this field. In classical Turkish literature, the poets often turn to the Eastern mythology, while from the time of Westernization, the Western mythology comes to the forefront. Edip Cansever, one of the names that carries mythological subjects into his poems in the Turkish poetry of the Republic, creates a unique form of narrative using the myths in the image level. Cansever is benefited by Western mythology in his books, Where Antigone and Tragedias. Cansever shows an Antigonist attitude in some poems and uses the Antigone image for this. The purpose of this article is to identify the mythological objects in Cansever’s poems from the important names of the Second New Poetry Movement and to try to reveal the poet’s processing and original aspects of these objects.

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