Bazı Türk ve Fransız şairlerinde ölüm: Birkaç örnek

Abstract

Whatever his/her belief may be a person who deserves the name of human being, has been trying to find out the meaning of life throghtout his/her life. In fact the aim of philosophy and even of religions is to attribute meaning to life and help human beings live accordingly. Where do the answers to such questions as “Who am I?”, “Where do I come from where do I want to go?”, “What’s the life?, How should I live?” come from? The existence of death leads us the source of answers to such questions. Furthermore, it is undeniable that death plays a big role in how weshap our lives and activities. For this reason death has been a commun subject of every type of literature. There are few authors and poets who do not deal with the reşections of death on the materialistic and moral aspects of our lives. In this study we presented different aspects of death in poems from French poets such as Villon, Ronsard, Lamartine, Victor Hugo and Baudelaire, and from Turkish poets such as Yunus Emre, Karacaoğlan, Recaizade Ekrem, Abdülhak Hâmid, Yahya Kemal,Faruk Nafiz et Cahit Sıtkı. The aims of this paper is not to research the philosophical and religious dimensions of death according to these poets, but rather to try to show how some feelings inspired by death are reşected in this poets lines.