The Relationship Between Civilisation and Culture in The Works of Sezai Karakoç, T. S. Eliot and Abdullah Et-Tayyib

Abstract

Sezai Karakoç is a poet-thinker who had a significant influence on modern Turkish
literature, thought and poetry, Thomas Stearns Eliot is one of the exceptional poet-thinkers
of the period who had a wide repercussion in contemporary American-British poetry,
and Abdullah et-Tayyib is one of the poet-thinkers that has a prominent and unique
place in Sudanese and Arabic literature. In the works of these three great names, among
the leading names of Turkish, English, and Sudanese literature, the relationship between
civilisation and culture is manifested as a common perspective, despite some differences
of opinion. In this study, we want to examine and evaluate how three important poet-thinkers
reflect the concepts of civilisation and culture in their works in the context of comparative
literature. Because the definitions and explanations of these three great names
shed light on the relationship between culture and civilisation. In our study, according to
Sezai Karakoç, civilisation includes culture; According to Thomas Stearns Eliot, these
two concepts are inseparable and used intertwined; In Abdullah et-Tayyib, although these
two concepts are used interchangeably from time to time, it is determined and explained
that culture is reflected in his works as an element of civilisation.