The Poetry of Edip Cansever from the perspective of Conformism- Nonconformism

Abstract

While Edip Cansever, being one of the leading poets of the İkinci Yeni movement, goes out of the traditional Turkish poetry arc in his poems, tries the untried/ untested, rejects the available thus showing a nonconformist look; in contrast to the attitude revealed in style, he studies the drama of individual lives who feel the obligation to comply with urban life, which he is in and that he cannot interpret, in his poems. This situation- which results from urbanization, capitalization and the structure of the modern state increasing the pressure on the individual day by day - appears to be the causes of conformism directly or indirectly in Cansever. In this study the terms conformist and non-conformist will be explained and immediately after that, it will be pointed out on the unconformity of İkinci Yeni in Turkish Poetry from the point of language and style, and the conformist individual, who is the focus point of Cansever’s poetry, will be examined with the aspect as how was reflected in his poetry.