“OH, CRUELTY, TO STEAL MY BASIL-POT AWAY FROM ME!”: THE REFLECTION OF BEREAVEMENT IN JOHN KEATS' ISABELLA, OR THE POT OF BASIL

Year 2018, Volume: 58 Issue: 1, 732 - 741, 01.01.2018

Azime Pekşen Yakar , Dilek Demirtepe Saygılı

Abstract

This paper analyses John Keats’ Isabella, or the Pot of Basil through the theories of bereavement and attachment as a poetic reflection of these processes with regard to Isabella’s grief after the unanticipated death of her lover Lorenzo and her in ability to cope with and how she maintains an unhealthy process of bereavement. Attachment styles, which begin with a human’s first relationship with the mother, represent the type and nature of the emotional bond with the significant other. Losing the attachment figure is associated with different reactions during bereavement. In this respect, it will be discussed that Isabella does not experience a healthy bereavement process as a result of her anxious attachment style and she cannot make sense and cope with her lover’s death. Therefore, she continues her bond with Lorenzo in a delirious manner, that is, through cutting his head and putting it into a pot in which she grows the basil. The poem has been examined in terms of Isabella’s insecure attachment style, emotions, reactions, and continuing bonds, along with a traumatic and sudden loss.

Keywords

Attachment Style, Bereavement, Continuing Bonds, John Keats, Isabella, Or The Pot of Basil

“AH ZALİMLİK BU, FESLEĞEN SAKSIMI BENDEN ALMAK!”: YAS SÜRECİNİN JOHN KEATS'IN “ISABELLA, YA DA FESLEĞEN SAKSISI”NDAKİ YANSIMASI

Abstract

Bu çalışma John Keats’in Isabella, ya da Fesleğen Saksısı şiirini yas ve bağlanma kuramları kullanarak incelemeyi amaçlamıştır. Şiir, Isabella’nın sevgilisi Lorenzo’nun beklenmeyen kaybı ile baş edememesi ve sürdürdüğü sağlıksız yas sürecinin bir yansıması olarak ele alınmıştır. İnsanların anneleri ile kurdukları ilk ilişki ile başlayan bağlanma stilleri, insanların hayatlarındaki önemli kişilerle kurdukları duygusal bağın türünü ve yapısını temsil eder. Bağlanma figürünü kaybetmek yas sürecinde gösterilen farklı tepkilerle ilişkilidir. Isabella, sahip olduğu kaygılı bağlanma stili nedeniyle sevgilisinin ölümünü anlamlandıramaz ve bu durumla baş edemez. Bu bağlamda, sağlıklı bir yas süreci yaşamadığı söylenebilir. Sonuçta Lorenzo ile kurduğu bağı hezeyanlarla sürdürür: Onun kafasını kesip bir saksıya koyarak üzerinde fesleğen yetiştirir. Bu eserde, Isabella’nın yaşadığı ani ve travmatik kayıp; güvensiz bağlanma stili, duygular, tepkiler ve sürdürülen bağlar açılarından incelenmiştir.

Keywords

Bağlanma Stilleri, Yas Süreci, Sürdürülen Bağlar, John Keats, Isabella, ya da Fesleğen Saksısı

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