A STRONG LINK OF THE COUNTRY POETRY IN CYPRUS: NAZIF SÜLEYMAN EBEOĞLU
MEMLEKET ŞİİRİNİN KIBRIS’TA GÜÇLÜ BİR HALKASI:NAZİF SÜLEYMAN EBEOĞLU

Author : Hüseyin EZİLMEZ
Number of pages : 339-355

Abstract

Nazif Süleyman Ebeoğlu (1921-2007), a poet who, with his hececi (syllabic meter)-romantic poems has achieved important success and became the banner bearer of hececi poetry in Turkish Cypriot Literature. Also, he has produced novels, short stories, memories, translations; essays, articles and criticism. He is not well known in these areas as much as he is as a poet, but with his competent Turkish and his strong literary language, he was one of the important writers of the Turkish Cypriot prose in 1940s. In Turkish Cypriot Literature he belongs to the “1940 Generation”, “Çığ’s Poet”, or “Çığcı”. With his literary personality and works, he is a strong link of “the Country” Literary movement. Beyrut Rıhtımlarında is his first and only poetry book that he published in 1942. But the signature of Ebeoğlu, continues to appear in all the periodicals and Çığ magazine between 1940 and 1950. Nonetheless, most of his short stories and serials of novels; translations and the other writings were never published as a book, and therefore did not reach today. The poetry of Nazif Süleyman Ebeoğlu nourished from the poetry of “National Literature” of Republic of Turkey and in particular, it’s “nationalist-county-traditionalist and romantic” with the influence of Beş Hececiler’s thematic and stylistic poetry. Apart from the themes of love and women that reflected his personal feelings; heroism, Turkish history, the love of Anatolia and Istanbul are the dominant themes in his poetry. In this article, study Ebeoğlu as a poet, and the poems that reveals his poetics. In the paper his poems analysed as thematic and stylistic, resources of poems and the influence of Beş Hececiler underlined and put forward that he is a strong representative of the Country Poetry in Turkish Cypriot Literature. Thus, this study’s main aim, to point out Nazif Süleyman Ebeoğlu who once leaved his mark on Turkish Cypriot culture and literature, but now is forgotten, or not read anymore.

Keywords

Nazif Süleyman Ebeoğlu, Beyrut Rıhtımlarında, Çığ, “the Country” Literature, syllabic meter.

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