Günce Filoloji ve Sosyal Bilimler Çalışmaları I
NATURE AS IMAGE IN OKTAY YİVLİ'S POETRY
Image is an artistic tool that reinforces the creation of aesthetic pleasure and excitement in the reader, who is the addressee of the poem. However, the image is not the poem itself, the image is an element related to the content, and the content of the image is a sensory expression of reality passing through personal and subjective aesthetic filters. As a form of mediation, the image arouses aesthetic pleasure in its addressee and triggers the imagination of the addressee. A direct narrative or expression motivates and pacifies human consciousness. Transforming the sensation or data obtained through the senses into an image becomes possible through a mental process. “The information received through the sense organs is selected, interpreted, organized and perception occurs with the help of consciousness.” According to this definition, image is the consciousness that represents the process of trying to make sense of objective reality through subjective filters, and is the "center of emotion, perception, awareness and knowledge". For this reason, it is possible to say that the "imagination" in which the image associated with the reinterpretation of the sensory trace of objective reality is produced does not act independently of both consciousness and subconsciousness. Oktay Yivli, in his poems decorated with the themes of love, nature and time, sensuality, sadness and death, has brought a secret appeal to his poetry with the images he created into an invisible, abstract and dreamy universe hidden behind the visible.The examples we will give in this study show that Oktay Yivli, as a poet with a rich lyrical background, has enriched his deep imagination power with elements of nature. With perfect and simple expressions, Oktay Yivli not only transforms the natural beings, which he adorns with sound and color elements, into an imaginary object with a very delicate attention, but also into a magical lyricism. As an emotional and pastoral poet, Oktay Yivli expresses some of his feelings and thoughts with different and original images. In Fahrettin Önder's words, Oktay Yivli is “an emotional and pastoral poet” and "transforms the objective realities he receives from the outside world into symphonic melodies with his lyrical imagination power." (Önder 1993, s. 5-6)