Reading Ahmet Haşim’s Poetry with Bachelard’s Theory of Poetic Reverie
In this study, the prominent images and forms of image-making in Ahmet Haşim’s poems are analyzed based on Gaston Bachelard’s theory of the poetics of imagination. According to Bachelard’s concept of poetic reverie, which he formulates from a phenomenology-based perspective, literary creation is als...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Istanbul University Press
2024-08-01
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| Series: | İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/9CDF04D9F031436D883E05C21DD4169F |
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| Summary: | In this study, the prominent images and forms of image-making in Ahmet Haşim’s poems are analyzed based on Gaston Bachelard’s theory of the poetics of imagination. According to Bachelard’s concept of poetic reverie, which he formulates from a phenomenology-based perspective, literary creation is also a conscious dreaming activity. In this approach, which positions the work as a poetic dream or a dream, the distinction between the concepts of dream and dream should not be overlooked. Dreams are the subject in the discipline of psychology and are associated with the unconscious. On the contrary, the poetic dream originates from conscious dreaming; however, the subject who constructs this dream, which is the product of conscious dreaming, is aware that it is not real, unlike dreams. In Haşim, the trajectory of immersion in dreaming, which is at the forefront, is processed through designs of the past or the ideal realm. While analyzing poetic reveries, Bachelard makes use of C.G. Jung’s archetypal approach and the terms anima and animus. Anima and animus signify the dualities of the subject as a coding form in which anima is assumed feminine and animus masculine. Among the feminine elements in Haşim’s poems in which the anima manifests clearly, the images of the mother and the woman who characterizes the beloved come to the fore. While recollections of the distant past concentrate on the image of the mother and childhood, layers of meaning are formed, in which archetypal elements are intertwined with individual experiences. In these poems, where the themes of memory and childhood coexist, poetic dreams are drawn into the realm of the anima; thus, an interpretation practice shaped under the dominance of the anima is revealed. |
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| ISSN: | 2602-2648 |