Examination of Oya Uysal's poems

Oya Uysal is one of the important names of Turkish poetry in the recent period. With his works, he sheds light on the post-1970 Turkey and the emotional worlds of individuals. Rather than social issues, he examines the traces of life on the "me" and the "me"'s view of life. The struggle of the individual especially with the feelings of "loneliness" and "love" is given with the images of "night" and "moonlight". In Oya Uysal's poems, "night" and "moonlight" are a shelter that is a friend to the sorrows and joys of the individual. In this study, the works of Oya Uysal are listed according to the date of publication. The works were analyzed according to the method that Şerif Aktaş determined in his work named "Poetry Analysis & Theory and Practice" and which proposes to evaluate the poems in terms of mentality, structure, theme, harmony, language and style. In the first part, under the title of "Life to Art", after giving information about the poet's birth, childhood, family environment, literary environment, the artists he was interested in, his first contacts with poetry, his views on poetry and his literary personality were evaluated. In the second part, the poems we selected from the twelve poetry books that we listed chronologically according to the publication date were examined in terms of mentality, structure, theme, language and harmony.