MANIFESTO AND POETRY

Year 2021, Issue: 66, 451 - 465, 24.06.2021

Murat Kadıroglu

Abstract

Manifesto has been one of the popular genres since its first examples in the 17th century. Its main function is to stimulate new ideas and form a guide to actualize these ideas and ambitions alike. Manifestoes have been investigated focusing on style, type, genre, etc. However, the relation between manifesto and poetry has not attracted much attention. Firstly, the manifesto’s argumentative utterance and poetry’s poetical verbalization posit them in the realm of discursive and rhetorical representations as both convey thoughts of an initiator to an audience. Moreover, the archaic modes of manifesto as a public declaration and the antique fashion of poetry as a shared experience owe much to orality and performance. This paper aims to give a brief history of manifesto and by setting a prime focus on the modernist manifestoes, it will present the analogies in manifesto and poetry and highlight the functional capacity of poetry in manifesto tradition.

Keywords

manifesto, poetry, discursive, rhetorical, performativity.

MANİFESTO VE ŞİİR

Abstract

Manifesto, 17. yüzyıldaki ilk örneklerinden bu yana popüler türler-den biri olmuştur. Ana işlevi, yeni fikirleri teşvik etmek ve bu fikirleri ve hedefleri benzer şekilde gerçekleştirmek için bir rehber oluşturmak-tır. Manifestolar üslup, tür, vb. konulara odaklanılarak incelenmiştir. Ancak manifesto ile şiir arasındaki ilişki pek ilgi görmemiştir. Birincisi, manifestonun tartışmacı yaklaşımı ve şiirin şiirsel konumu, konuşmacı-nın düşüncelerini bir izleyiciye aktarması yönüyle ikisini de söylemsel ve retorik temsiller alanına yerleştirir. Dahası, kamuya açık bir bildiri olarak arkaik manifesto biçimleri ve toplu paylaşım deneyimi olarak şii-rin kadim yönü sözlü geleneğe ve performansa dayanır. Bu çalışma, kı-sa bir manifesto tarihi vermeyi amaçlamakta ve modernist manifestolara öncelik vererek, manifesto ve şiirdeki analojileri ortaya koymayı ve manifesto geleneğinde şiirin işlevsel kapasitesini vurgulamayı planla-maktadır.

Keywords

manifesto, şiir, söylemsel, retorik, performatiflik.

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