Discourse analyses of Ahmed Arif's poetry book named "Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim"

Ahmed Arif (1927-1991), who wrote poetry within the framework of the Marxist understanding of art and is also one of the most important poetic representatives of the socialist realist understanding of art, has an exceptional place in Turkish literature. Ahmed Arif generally uses local images from the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Regions in his poems. There are 19 poems in total in "Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim", the only poetry book he wrote, and this work is recorded as the best-selling poetry book in Turkish literature. The places he chose as a setting for his poems are Van, Bitlis, Şanlıurfa, Elazig, Diyarbakir and Ankara. In this respect, it differs from other socialist realist artists. In this study, 19 poems in Ahmed Arif's poetry book named "Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim" were handled within the framework of enunciation theory, which is a linguistics method. In the first part of the study, information about Ahmed Arif's life, understanding of art and works is given. In the second part, explanations were made about discourse, discourse analysis and methods developed based on linguistics. In the third chapter, all the poems in the book "Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim" were handled one by one and the relationship of these poems with the enunciation theory was mentioned. While examining the poems, concepts such as enunciation subject, context, space, time, qreceiver and sender, which emerged with the enunciation theory, were explained in detail. These poems, for which discourse analysis was made, were approached from a different perspective and a deficiency in this field was tried to be eliminated. Keywords: Ahmed Arif, Discourse Analysis, Enunciation Theory, Linguistics, Social Realist Poetry.