The world of subjects in Nurullah Genç's poems

Nurullah Genç, who has gained an important place among the poets committed to religion, tradition and national values in post-Republican Turkish poetry, is a name that stands out with his Islamic sensitivity. Based on the works he has brought to our literature, it is seen that traces of the Turkish Islamic world are found in his poems in the historical process of our poetry world. The poet, who deals with themes such as the perception of civilization, the inner world of the individual, the confrontation with oneself and the reflection of the inner world to the outside in his poems, has also used mazmuns, one of the important elements of literary heritage, extensively. Although his works include mazmuns that bear the traces of classical Turkish poetry tradition, he synthesized this tradition with modern poetry and created new layers of meaning. Nurullah Genç reinterpreted traditional mazmuns in his poems with a modern language understanding and expressed them without breaking away from the richness of the old meaning. In the study, it was aimed to determine the reflections of the semantic richness of the magical world of metaphors in Nurullah Genç's poems and to bring a contemporary interpretation based on their classical meanings. In this study, the legacy of the literary tradition used in classical Turkish literature in Nurullah Genç's poems was found and categorized. With examples from the poems of poets who are important with their works in classical Turkish poetry, the meanings of the mazmuns used in Nurullah Genç's poems were put forward with a contemporary perspective in the light of periodical changes.