A NOMAD in ISTANBUL or CEMAL SÜREYA'S ISTANBUL
İSTANBUL’DA BİR GÖÇEBE YA DA CEMAL SÜREYA’NIN İSTANBUL’U

Author : Fatih ÖZDEMİR
Number of pages : 245-251

Abstract

The images of Cemal Süreya, who is one of the leading poets of “İkinci Yeni” (Second New Movement) poems, bear the traces of places where he lived. His poems, as narrate Anatolia in which he was born and grown up, cover the waterfront of İstanbul where he started to live afterwards. There is an urbanized viewpoint in poet’s view to İstanbul. CemalSüreya, who started to write poems in the period when the speed of urbanizationincreased, carried out all aspects of urban identity to his poems. In this period, when Turkey has evolved from village to city, from agricultural society to industrial society, the perception of i

Keywords

Cemal Süreya, poem, İstanbul, urban/city, geography

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