Pure poetry understanding with Ahmet Muhip Diranas

Ahmet Muhip Dıranas is a poet who creates his poetry by bathing in the pool of poetry culture from the poetry experiences of the past. He understood that poetry was not only based on inspiration, and he worked on his poetry for a long time, like a jeweler who worked on jewels and a sculptor who carved marble. Although his sources of poetry are Anatolian, French poetry and especially Baudelaire, he followed the footsteps of Ahmet Haşim, Yahya Kemal and his teacher Tanpınar, and became one of the poets who best practiced Pure Poetry in the Republican Period in syllabic terms. In the first part of the thesis, the life of Ahmet Muhip Dıranas; his birth, school period, military service, marriage, working and political life and his works were discussed in detail and new determinations were made. In the second part of the thesis, the Concept of Pure Poetry in French and Turkish poets is examined in detail; Pure Poets Yahya Kemal, Ahmet Haşim, Tanpınar, Necip Fazıl, Cahit Sıtkı, Asaf Hâlet, a literary group who are related to the Pure Poetry Understanding of French poets such as Valery, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Nerval, Apollinaire and Dıranas in Turkish poetry. As a matter of fact, the Seven Torches are discussed in detail. In the third part of the thesis, in order to reveal the Elements of Pure Poetry, the Description of Pure Poetry, Ahmet Muhip Dıranas's Understanding of Pure Poetry, the changes in his poetry and the value of his art, 16 poems in the book called "Beş Seasons" were compared with the forms in the book of "Our Poetry Dört Ahmedi" and "Poems", and the differences between them were determined. As a result of these differences, the poems were evaluated and new determinations were made in the context of Poetry Craftsmanship and in idea of Perfection, which was given the most importance by Pure Poetry by emphasizing the "changed, added, removed" word-word groups and verses in the final form of the poems. Key Words: Pure Poetry Understanding, Pure Poetry, Turkish Poetry in the Republican Period, Pure Poetry Understanding With Ahmet Muhip Dıranas.