Basic aesthetic elements in Asaf Hâlet Çelebi's poems

The artist creates a newworldforhimselftoleave a mark on theworld in which he exists, toaddnewmeaningtowhat he is not received, andtogetrid of his burdens. Thework of art he created in thisworld is his manifesto against life. Perceiving, studying, andaddingvaluetothisemergingwork of art requires a certainamount of artisticknowledge. Not everyobjectthatemerges is considered a work of art, or can gobeyondtheage of beautyperception of certainworks of art. At thispoint, thescience of aestheticsarises. Forthisreason, theaestheticthatallows us tovalue art andthe artist is veryimportantfor us. Aesthetics is not a sciencethatdealsonlywiththeinterests of beauty. It is thescience of allthevaluesthatman has createdandreflected in art in the modern world. Forthisreason, thesubtletyfor a sculptor, thedepthfor a painter, thetimbrefor a musician, andthelanguagefor a poetmeanthesamething. Byassimilatingtheaesthetic, thepoetbeautifiesthequalified. Instead of imitatingthe West, Asaf Hâlet Çelebi, who fed on ourowncultureandEasternsources, frequentlyusedmysticism, Buddhism, IndiansourcesandAsianbeliefs in his poems. Çelebi, whowe can callthepoet of intuition, has openedthedoors of an abstractrealmwith his poems. He added a verydifferentdimensionto his art withthefairy-taleatmosphere he created in the background of his poems, theimpressivepower of his wordsandtheharmony he created in thereader'sconsciousness. Theformulaquotes he addsto his poemspaint a picture in thereader'smind. Asaf Hâlet Çelebi'spoemscontainmanyconceptssuch as beautiful, ugly, good, bad, terrible, bitter. Thisworkaimstoexaminethepoems of Asaf Halet Çelebi from an aestheticpoint of view. Thedeepstructurethatthepoetused in his poetryandtherichcontentthatremained in the background wereinstrumental in selectingthistopic. Inordertoprovide a deeplook at thescience of aesthetics, wefirstneedtomake sense of art andthe artist. Inthiscontext, thedefinition of art andthe artist wasfirsttriedto be given. Based on art andthe artist, thebirth of AestheticScienceandtheideas of thinkers on thissubjectareexplained. Theimpact of theplaceand time in whichthework of art appears is quitesignificant. Forthisreason, theaesthetic idea thataffectsTurkishliterature has alsobeenincluded. Based on allthesecontexts, Asaf Halet Çelebi'spoemshavebeenstudiedaesthetically. KeyWords:Asaf Hâlet Çelebi, Aesthetics, Art, Artist, Poetry, Beautiful, Ugly, Intuiti