Ankara : Türk Edebiyatı Bölümü, Bilkent Üniversitesi, 2009.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Bilkent University, 2009.Includes bibliographical references leaves 415-433.“The Province in Turkish Poetry: 1859-1959” is a study which focuses on the
transformation of the fact of province in the history of Turkish poetry. In this study,
it is elaborated that how the province, which is described as the regions outside the
literal center, is treated in the poetry. The features which arose from the narratives of
province with its nature and inhabitants are the area of interest of this thesis. This
study, in which the language used in the poems, the viewpoint of the persona and the
preferred images are analyzed, the transformation of the features that emerge in the
narration of the province are explained.
In this study, it is identified that the objective realities of the province didn’t reflect
well enough in the poetry. In the poems which narrate the province, the province is
mainly a means to explain a certain thought. In these poems, a language that imitates
the language and art of province is used, when the elitist and standard language of
the center is neglected. The personas in these poems, could only identify the different
forms that they met by transforming them to the formal information of the aesthetic
ideology which was disseminated by the center. In these poems, therefore, the visual
images and metaphors are dominant.
The province, which was narrated in the period of Divan poetry, is not the whole
Ottoman geography but the central states. In the period of the Republic, the province
is called as the places that are far from the sea. Although there are many common
features in the narrations of province, it is observed that three different regions are
treated with three different ways: Near province (Edirne, Bursa, Ege Basin), far
province (Eskişehir-Afyon line, Central Anatolia, Western and Central Black Sea
and the inner regions of Western and Central Mediterranean) and the deep province
(Sivas, Eastern Anatolia, Southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Mediterranean and the inner
parts of Eastern Black Sea).
In near province, otherworldliness, eroticism, prosperity, happiness, pleasure and
daily troubles are manifested. In far province, poverty, identification with provincial,
immigration, mechanization in agriculture and popular symbols are used. In deep
province, rebellion, nationality, underdevelopment, the desire for enlightenment,
bravery and epic discourse are remarkable.Ergül, Mehmet SelimPh.D
