"Rewinding intricate century": The spatio-temporal motion in Tevfik Fikret and Nazım Hikmet's poems

This dissertation explores the linguistic records created by "bodily sensation" in the context of the spatio-temporal movement in Tevfik Fikret and Nazım Hikmet's poetry. On the focus of time and space, it determines the vibrations occurring in Tevfik Fikret's poetry as bodily signs and characterizes them as the "bourgeois body". For this reason, the only sign that shifts time and space in Tevfik Fikret's poetry is these vibrations that point to the "here and now" as emphasized by Fredric Jameson. This "bourgeois body" is shaped by the ideological formulation in Nazım Hikmet's poetry and turns into the "body-of-truth" putting forward by Alain Badiou. For this reason, the movement in Nazım Hikmet's poetry is in a structure that combines a Soviet model inspired by Mayakovsky and the voice of Tevfik Fikret. In that case, the writing style adopted by Nazım Hikmet carries the space of Tevfik Fikret's poetry to a Marxist ground and echoes the vibrations of image and sound in his poetry in a unique way. Therefore, he puts the "bourgeois body", which records such vibrations without destination, into the present of the "body-of-truth" with a temporal figuration. In this sense, this study, which takes on such a historical positioning of Turkish poetry through this two poets as its duty, aims to suggest new variations of poetry reading on spatial movements by following the traces of a wide-range time debate.