Research Article

Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry

Volume: 62 Number: 1 June 30, 2022
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Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry

Abstract

This article studies the evolution of Melih Cevdet Anday’s poetic style with a particular emphasis on his use of imagery. Traditional accounts of Anday’s poetry have tended to call attention to the beginning of his poetic career as part of the Garip (Birinci Yeni) movement and eventual alignment with the aesthetic sensibility of the İkinci Yeni. Recently, critics have complicated this picture by demonstrating continuities in Anday’s early and late poetic styles, as well as calling into question the categorization of Anday with the İkinci Yeni. This article builds on this recent criticism by demonstrating continuities and changes in Anday’s descriptive practices across the different stages of his poetic career. A thorough examination of Anday’s imagery requires assessment of the careful distance he maintained from the other imageoriented practices in the modern era. To that end, Anday’s linguistic and philosophical approach to imagery are analyzed, as well as the tenor of the relationship Anday establishes between language and objective reality. Finally, the centrality of Wallace Stevens’s influence on Anday’s poetic style needs to be emphasized, since both poets challenge dominant image-oriented trends in modern poetry. Thus, Stevens’s influence on Anday proves instructive for an analysis of the poet’s changing style within the modernist context. The article builds on existing scholarly comparisons of the two poets by analyzing Anday’s 1965 translations of Stevens. Finally, it offers a detailed analysis of the formal, linguistic, and descriptive aspects of Anday’s poem “İstasyon" to demonstrate the nature of the poet’s philosophical negotiations between language and reality.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 30, 2022

Submission Date

February 14, 2022

Acceptance Date

April 25, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 62 Number: 1

APA
Levi, M. (2022). Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry. Journal of Turkish Language and Literature, 62(1), 143-164. https://doi.org/10.26650/TUDED2022-1073053
AMA
1.Levi M. Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry. Journal of Turkish Language and Literature. 2022;62(1):143-164. doi:10.26650/TUDED2022-1073053
Chicago
Levi, Melih. 2022. “Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry”. Journal of Turkish Language and Literature 62 (1): 143-64. https://doi.org/10.26650/TUDED2022-1073053.
EndNote
Levi M (June 1, 2022) Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry. Journal of Turkish Language and Literature 62 1 143–164.
IEEE
[1]M. Levi, “Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry”, Journal of Turkish Language and Literature, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 143–164, June 2022, doi: 10.26650/TUDED2022-1073053.
ISNAD
Levi, Melih. “Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry”. Journal of Turkish Language and Literature 62/1 (June 1, 2022): 143-164. https://doi.org/10.26650/TUDED2022-1073053.
JAMA
1.Levi M. Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry. Journal of Turkish Language and Literature. 2022;62:143–164.
MLA
Levi, Melih. “Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry”. Journal of Turkish Language and Literature, vol. 62, no. 1, June 2022, pp. 143-64, doi:10.26650/TUDED2022-1073053.
Vancouver
1.Melih Levi. Image and Responsiveness: Melih Cevdet Anday’s Poetry. Journal of Turkish Language and Literature. 2022 Jun. 1;62(1):143-64. doi:10.26650/TUDED2022-1073053