MOTIVE OF ROSE IN SEZAI KARAKOÇ`S “FOURTY HOURS WITH HIZIR”

Abstract

Sezai Karakoç is considered to be a person who created and affirmed the ideal of Turkish culture in which poetry takes prominent place. His poetry is distinguished with a rich artistic language and symbolism of images. Author, for example, attaches big importance to the image of a rose, which in general is one of the most used in the Turkish poetry. Sezai Karakoç lays some kind of bridge between the present, where he lives, and future with the help of his art. He puts a strong poetic and ideological tradition today, in which the cultural codes of his time become quite distinct and highly significant. Exactly because of the evolution of the image of rose in author`s poetry we can observe the process of his art evolution. One of the significant works, on which the researcher focuses special attention, is “Hızırla Kırk Saat”.