Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi

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Irony is a type of discourse, mostly synthesized with humor, that evokes other meanings of a spoken word, focuses on criticizing or mocking its interlocutor. Although there are many ways of doing it, irony works on the basis of meaning the opposite of discourse, implying the meaning of the critical and sarcastic other. This process, which is frequently exemplified in daily life and literary works, is theoretically called “verbal irony”. Irony, which has long been evaluated on the level of humor in Turkish literature, appears as a form of discourse that started to form its own boundaries, especially in the Republican phase of Turkish literature. Irony, which cannot be separated with clear and sharp lines from the humor and satire it is shaped around, is used consciously and intensely in the poems of Orhan Veli Kanık, the pioneer of the Garip movement (I. New). Orhan Veli Kanık’s desire to make humor and irony characteristic of his poetry is an important factor in this being the case. As a matter of fact, the shocking and interesting aspect of Orhan Veli’s poetry in the Turkish poetry tradition stems from this. In this study, in which the traces of verbal irony are traced in the context of Orhan Veli Kanık’s poems, it is seen that the poet prefers ironic expression in many of his poems, and these are especially concentrated around verbal irony.