The second new traces in Gülten Akın's poetry

Gülten Akın, who was chosen as the greatest living Turkish poet in 2008, is one of the female poets of the Republican Period after 1950, who blended traditional and modern poetic techniques of Turkish poetry. The beginning of her 57-year artistic career coincides with the period when the Second New poetry was most active. In the poetic universe of Akın, who created her own poetics in terms of style, theme and form, the struggle for existence of both herself and her nation is revealed in all its colors. Her poem, which feeds on the waters of many poetic trends due to the period in which she lived, but creates her own bed, sets off with her own inner wind, revels in epics, and calms down in quiet backyards, is a poem with a long shadow. It is an example of sehlimümteni with its pure, clear and noble Turkish. It is nourished by the universe of thought of national poetry, both the expression and cultural accumulation of folk poetry, and the understanding of imagery that breaks the narrow, familiar patterns of the Second New. The elements that the Second New brought to Turkish poetry such as unusual association, multi-layered imagery, language fractures, metaphors, cinematic elements, loneliness, alienation are important features in Gülten Akın's poetry. In this study, Gülten Akın's artistic personality, the elements that nourish her art, the sources of her poetic aesthetics and the traces of the Second New were emphasized, the traces of the Second New were sought in Gülten Akın's poetry and examples were given in accordance with the determined features.