Rebellion in the Second New poetry

The rebellion theme that has always had a place in literature is one of the dominant motives in the Second New Generation poetry. The Second New Generation(İkinci Yeni), which is rebellious both in terms of its form and thematic terms, reveals itself as a protest against the changing face of the century. This poem, in which rebellion is synthesized and takes shape with aesthetic factors, is like an uprising against tradition, everything given and related to authority, pressure and restrictions, understanding of the century that puts people and the feeling of emptiness and being wasted that a person can wallow in. The Second New Generation poets that depict people who become estranged and alienated due to social problems such as wars, poverty, value loss in their poems experience spiritual conflicts, frustrations in the face of the subject matter problems and try to render life meaningful by means of being rebellious as a way of intervention in life. Rebellious behavior meaning being defiant, unyielding, mutinous is displayed when a person rejects everything that is meaningless / inconsistent / absurd and instead defends the values he/she believes in. The Second New Generation poets that see the existence of absurd/nonsensical as a result of the disconnection between their self values and worldly values become conflicted with the world that is the symbol of everything given in the face of this absurdity. On the other hand, they also try to configure a world design that allows life to be lived in an ontological integrity. The rebellious feelings are aired either quite ferociously or behind a latent curtain in these poems, where meanings are deeply buried. This study was conducted on the basis of the poems of leading poets of the Second New Generation, namely İlhan Berk, Turgut Uyar, Edip Cansever, Cemal Süreya, Ece Ayhan, Sezai Karakoç and Ülkü Tamer, and the rebellious elements of these poems have been discussed and examined within the context of the contrary values against which they are directed. The poems have been examined in two main groups: personal, which includes alienation, sexuality and artistic sensitivity; and societal, which deals with the themes of modernism, poverty, tradition, pressure and limitations. Key Words: Second New Generation, poem, rebellion, existence