ESCAPİSM AND THE UTOPIAN LONGING IN THE POETRY OF TEVFİK FİKRET
TEVFİK FİKRET’İN ŞİİRLERİNDE KAÇIŞ VE ÜTOPİK ÖZLEMİN İZLERİ

Author : Necla DAĞ
Number of pages : 224-235

Abstract

The concept of utopia has been discussed so many times and studied in the light of various perspectives. There are multifarious views about by whom the concept was coined, where it derived, and in what meanings it has been used. Utopias are acknowledged to be the outcomes of people’s longing for a free, happy and peaceful life. Throughout the human history, mankind’s desire for a better lifestyle, together with his unlimited power of imagination, has led to the rise of the fictional countries and paradises. Utopias offer alternatives to the discontentment with the circumstances. In the period of Servet-i Fünun (Wealth of Sciences), the incidents of oppression, espionage and denouncement deeply affected Tevfik Fikret just like many other writers of the period. In order to get rid of the unsatisfactory circumstances and of the political suppression, Tevfik Fikret and his fellows dreamed of escaping to New Zealand and of embracing bright days there. It is clearly possible to see that utop

Keywords

Tevfik Fikret, utopia, escapism.

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