Abstract
At this study, who are the poets of the forty generation has been discoursed firstly. Then the discussion about mythologizing Nazım Hikmet has been mentioned briefly. After all, the viewpoint of the poets to Nazım Hikmet has been revealed based on Hasan İzzettin Dinamo’s Apollon and muse assimilation, which are mythological characters, for Nazım Hikmet and other forty-generation poets and also by using the examples from other forty generation poets’ poems. It has been seen that the poets have mythologized him in their poems to express their respect, like and adherence. So that it has been determined that the first examples of the poems, that would make Nazım Hikmet a subject and a phenomenon in Turkish poems, has been given by these poets. It has been reached that understanding the relation between Nazım Hikmet and forty generation, makes it easier to understand the adventure of socialist realist Turkish poem.