FLOWERS IN POET'S MENTAL RETINA: CARNATION, ROSE AND CHRYSANTHEMUM-INSTANCES OF TEVFIK FIKRET, AHMET HASIM, MUSTAFA RESID VE AHMET HAMDI TANPINAR-

Abstract

In this article, Ahmet Hasim's Karanfil, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Bir Gul Bu Karanliklarda, Tevfik Fikret's Krizantem poems and Mustafa Resid's passages from Bir Cicegin Lisanindan have all been grounded on, due to their inclusion of curves, locality, shape, and size angles in imagining flowers. In imagining the flower, the poet's meticulous instructions take the foreground. As the patient follows the doctor's instructions under hypnosis, the readers follow the poet's unspoken instructions. From the directions given from outside, the flower creates a temporality that alludes to the presence and a recollection of the past. Since this temporality carries a certain chronological time frame, the imagery is perceived as a concrete object observed by the viewer, like a photograph or a painting. Initially, the painting does not evoke emotion, it simply brings forth an act of recollection. In cases where the poet's gaze inclines from inside to out; flowers, with their reminiscent semblance, connotate other similar shapes and forms to mind, thus turning the flower into a medium where these shapes coexist. This motion, moving from inside to out by shifting, scattering, spreading or pouring in tandem yet respectively not only creates the imagery of flora it also transforms the reader's eye into a mental retina, as it also loads all the changes of a psychological state.