“THE POEM OF HEARTBREAK: SECRET LOVE”
“BİR KALP KIRIKLIĞININ ŞİİRİ: GİZLİ SEVDA”

Author : Selami ÇAKMAKCI
Number of pages : 166-175

Abstract

Behçet Necatigil who is called as “poet of home” due to his attachment to home is famousalso for his poems about love. In love poems of the poet whose majority of his poetryis predominated with sadness and pessimism the bitterness of heart and sufferings arising from the impossibility of reuniting attract attention. The poem of “Secret Love” is among love-themed poetry of Necatigil. The “Secret Love” is probably one of the texts expressing the most tragic love stories. Necatigil focuses on love which is one of the greatest values in human’s inner world. This poem puts into words the disappointment experienced at a failed love affair. The love which is known as the key for human happiness is treated in this poem as one of reasons for downheartedness. The poetry presenting a human-related reality within the capability of language is therewithal a worth reflecting the inner world of human. The “Secret Love” poem involves a short story in respect of remembering a douloureux love experience which is scarcely forgotten or which is supposed to be forgotten. This poem gives utterance to the reality of love which was not reciprocated.

Keywords

Love, Passion, Remembering, Disappointment, Being Unable to Forget.

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