Nature in Nurullah Genc's poetry

Nurullah Genç, who was born in Pinaduz village of Horasan which is a province of Erzurum, which he described as a mountain, a village and an ancestor in her own words, met the world of literature at a very young age. The poet, who specializes in economics and is known as a professor these days, is known for his poems, novels and works of photography. Nurullah Genç's interest in the world of flowers and animals, which are the basic elements of nature, required them to be examined under thematic subheadings in poems equipped with civilization, belief and cosmic elements. In this study, analysis of the poems in which natural elements such as flowers, animals, cosmic elements and "four elements", are based on the book 'Mahrem ve Münzevi' in which all the poems of the poet are brought together. The aim of the study is to examine the poems in which he expresses these feelings in detail, based on the poet's world intertwined with nature and his attitude and stance towards nature, and to evaluate these feelings and thoughts by showing similar works from Classical Turkish Poetry. In addition to this, another aim of the study is to explain the elements of the cosmic realm used by the poet, who has a heavy mystical aspect, and the emotions he wants to express with "four elements". In the introduction part of the study, the poet's life, literary personality and artistic understanding are explained, and the next sections are divided into four main sections. In the first chapter, the meanings of all the flowers that the poet mentioned in his poems are discussed in detail. In the second part, the reflection of the poet's interest in animals to the poems is examined. In the third chapter, the poet's cosmic world and the emotions he gives meaning in this world are analyzed. Finally, in the fourth chapter, the natural world of the poet was discovered by evaluating the meanings of air, water, fire and earth, known as four elements. Keywords: Nurullah Genç, Mahrem ve Münzevi, Flowers, Animals, Cosmic Realm, Four Elements