Dergiler / Türkiyat Mecmuası / 2017 / Cilt: 27 - Sayı: 1

YUNAN ŞAİR KAVAFİS’İN ŞİİRLERİNDE MEKÂN: İSKENDERİYE

THE ROLE OF ALEXANDRIA AS A PLACE IN CAVAFY’S POEMS

Sayfa
225–247
DOI
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Özet

Ünlü Yunanlı Şair Konstantinos Kavafis, şiirlerinde mekân olarak doğduğu

Abstract

The famous Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy used Alexandria city, wherehe was born, in his poems. Therefore the city has very important role both inhis life and poems. Especially in his poems that were subject of HellenisticAlexandria, he successfully showed all elements of those periods. Alexandriawas a main subject of his poems. Especially city’s cosmopolitan side causedhis poems being unique and interesting. Therefore it is very important for usto understand the effect of the city in his poems. The value Greek culture andlanguage was effected by Eastern Culture in Cavafy’s Alexandria. Even toughAlexandria was the centre point of his poems, The Greek culture and its valueaffected its poems.

Anahtar kelimeler: Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, İskenderiye, Yunan şiiri, Helenistik kültür