Animals in second new poetry

The Second New movement, which emerged in Turkish literature in the 1950s, emerged not as a common movement, but as poets writing poems with similar understandings. The movement, which is considered a modernist quest against the traditional understanding of poetry in terms of both form and content, started as a reaction to the Garip poetry and socialist realism. Muzaffer Erdost gave the movement its name with his article 'İkinci Yeni' published in the newspaper Son Havadis on August 19, 1956. The Second New presented an original understanding of poetry that centered on the inner world of the individual, the subconscious, the possibilities of language and connotative meaning. The images not used by the Strange Movement were re-introduced into poetry with this movement. A poetic language that does not directly convey meaning and adopts abstractness and closedness was established; a new aesthetic plane was created in poetry with unusual images, associations, fragmented expression and illogical fictions. The Second New poets, who did not attach importance to meaning, prioritized emotions and imagination. The Second New Movement, consisting of valuable names such as İlhan Berk, Turgut Uyar, Edip Cansever, Cemal Süreya, Ece Ayhan and Sezai Karakoç, made great use of animal imagery while using the newly created poetic language. Through these images, the language was saved from ordinariness. In their poems, animals are not only beings that reflect nature, but also symbols that convey the dark aspects of the human soul, identity crises resulting from urbanization, social criticism, existential questioning or linguistic games. In this context, animal imagery increased the power of abstraction in the Second New Poetry and emphasized the extraordinary and originality by distancing the poetic language from the everyday. In these poems, where meaning is not at the forefront, the reader is invited not only to understand the poem through images, but also to feel it, to grasp it on an intuitive plane. In this study, the poetry books of the poets of the Second New New were analyzed and the poems containing animals were separated and analyzed. However, not every animal image in the poems was included in this analysis process. The reason for this is that some animal images are used in poems with their literal or superficial meanings and do not assume any connotative or symbolic function in the poetic context. Key Words: İkinci Yeni, Animals, İlhan Berk, Cemal Süreya, Turgut Uyar.