Abstract
FROM NATURE POETRY TO ECO-POETRY: ECOLOGICAL CONTENT IN POETRY AND AN ANALYSİS ON A POEM OF SALÂH BİRSEL
The environmental problems that have emerged since the 20th century show the need to look at nature with a different attention and lead to the start of environmental studies that try to find solutions to these problems. The reflection of this development, which has its counterpart in other disciplines, on literature is twofold. On the one hand, literary works that bring environmental problems to the agenda begin to be written, on the other hand, eco-criticism, which examines literary works with different approaches, develops. It can be said that a different perception of nature is included in the works that show that people, the environment they live in, or nature should be viewed as life-centered. This development, which affects the reflection of nature, which is one of the oldest subjects of the work of art, to poetry gives birth to sub-genres of nature poetry. In this study, first of all, the differences and similarities between ‘environmental poetry’ and ‘eco-poetry’, which are evaluated under the headings of ‘pastoral poetry’, ‘nature poetry’ and ‘nature poetry’, are mentioned. In the second part of the study, it has been tried to show that there is a complex relationship between 'nature poetry', 'environmental poetry' and 'eco-poetry', and that poems that are not defined as 'eco-poetry' can also have an environmentalist essence. In Salâh Birsel's poem "Ölüyoruz Siz Güzelleşin", which was chosen as the subject of the study, the cycle of beings turning into matter after death and mixing with the soil is explained. The cycle poem in question gives the opportunity to read according to the ‘New Materialist’ criticism within the ‘Deep Ecology’ and Posthumanist understanding. In the analysis, a path that tries to reach the deep structure from the surface area, based on the relations of opposition or equivalence in the poem, has been followed.
Keywords
“Ölüyoruz Siz Güzelleşin”, Eco-poetry, Environmental Poetry, Nature Poetry, Deep Ecology, New Materi
