Fruit in Return to the Folklore in Turkish Poems

Abstract

Turkish started to gain its own identity by new language movement started by the national literature poets. In some ways, this movement expressed a change and transformatian of the language; at the same time it paved the road to revive the national values and reinvent the Anatolian culture that had been forgotten for a long time. Especially, Anatolia has become the subject matter of poems, novels and theatrical performances after the Republican Revolution. In this paper, fruit image in the Turkish folkloric is studied in the poems of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu and Cahit Külebi during the Republic era.