YENİ TÜRK ŞİİRİNİ BESLEYEN BİR KAYNAK: MEVLÂNA

In the history of Turkish literature of the Republican period, poets who realize the value of Mevlâna are not few. When storytellers, novelists, playwrights and essayists are added, the number will increase even more. After the constitution of Republic of Turkish, the place of Mevlâna in the Turkish literature has not yet been researched about literary genres. The subject remains like a virgin field and awaits researchers who will be interested in master's and doctoral levels. The first concept to come to the fore in these studies will be “tradition”. Considering the revolution poetry, revolutionary poetry and tradition poetry, which found their expression in the first half of the Turkish poetry of the Republican period, it can be guessed that the poets who see Mevlâna and his Mesnevi as a source are mainly clustered in the third group. In the theoretical writings of some great poets who grew up in this period, a distinctive feature of poetry was “continuity”. “Continuity” finds its expression in the Nas USOBED (Uluslararası Batı Karadeniz Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler Dergisi) 2021, 5(2): 219-235 220 poetry of the tradition that connects the past, state and future. It is obvious that a poetic language based on tradition will not neglect the sources of the past. As an example of continuity in poetry, this article focuses on how Mevlâna developes today's poetry as a source, despite the centuries since his death. Abstract: Divan poetry, new Turkish poetry, tradition, continuity. Divan poetry, new Turkish poetry, tradition, continuity. “Ben bir çöküşün esteti değilim. Belki bu çöküşte yaşayan şeyler arıyorum. Onları değerlendiriyorum.” (A. Hamdi Tanpınar, Huzur)