Epistemological and ontological mystification in Ilhan Berk's poems

One of the important literary groups of modern Turkish literature is the Second Yen movement. Effective from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, the Second New Era had fundamental and significant changes in poetry, image and syntax. Ilhan Berk, one of the pioneers of the Second New Movement, is a versatile and highly versatile poet who tried different techniques in poetry, made changes from time to time in poetry and wrote different works for many years. İlhan Berk, who has written poems in almost every subject, has benefited from different sources throughout his life as a poet. In this study, İlhan Berk's poetic life and poems were divided into three periods and the study was carried out on the basis of these three periods. Love, sexuality and eroticism, which is one of the most important sources of İlhan Berk poems and spread throughout the life of poetry and spread to almost every poem, are not limited to a certain period. In this study, the epistemological and ontological mystifications in İlhan Berk poems are discussed, the epistemological and ontological sources on which İlhan Berk is nourished and based are determined and the meaning world of İlhan Berk poems is explained. The source of information, which is based on İlhan Berk's epistemology - nourishment and what kind of being information - ontology - is explained from his life, what he reads and his poems, and the mystery and secrets of Berk poems are revealed. Keywords : İlhan Berk, his life, poems, epistemology, ontology, mystification, source of poetry, mystery of his poems