Visual Design of Hüseyin Ferhad's Poetic Universe

Abstract

Turkish poetry after 1980, characterized by a diversity of poetic orientations, moves away from its political language and attitude due to the political conditions of the period. It creates new possibilities in terms of form, style and theme with the diversity enriched by different pursuits. During this period, poetry searches with different tendencies. Hüseyin Ferhad, who added a new dimension to his poetry adventure, which he started with a social/political understanding, nourishes his poetry with metaphysics, belief, mythology and ethnic culture along with social sensitivity during his journey on a geographical plane, first to the Aegean, Mediterranean and Asia Minor, and then to the East/Turkish world. The poetry that Ferhad puts forward within this framework contains intense images, and these images are predominantly visual in character.

In Hüseyin Ferhad's poetry collection consisting of eight books, it has been determined that the poetic universe designed through sensory-based images is predominantly visual and is explained with examples. A descriptive method was used to analyze text fragments taken from Ferhad's different books. In the study, firstly, information about the poet's poetic understanding is presented, then the visual image is explained and the visual dimension of the sensory images in Hüseyin Ferhad's poetry is shown through selected examples. Through the examinations, it has been determined that Hüseyin Ferhad's image-intensive poetry was designed with the visual sense, and his poetry with visual image character constitutes an important place in the poet's poetic/aesthetic understanding.