International Journal of Languages' Education and Teaching

Öz

Talât Sait Halman (1931-2014), who has many facets from politics to art, from media to academia, is a distinguished figure who has devoted his life to Turkish culture and literature. Halman, who has written several thousand reviews and articles, is the author of more than 50 copyrighted and translated works. His translations are pioneering works in introducing Turkish Literature to the world. He translated Shakespeare's sonnets in aruz prosody. Talât Sait Halman started writing poetry as a child and continued throughout his life. He was passionate about poetry and wanted to be known as a poet beyond all his qualifications. Halman, who learnt aruz on his own when he was still a secondary school student, gained the title of the poet who used the most number of aruz prosody among Turkish poets. In his poetry, he fed on tradition, sometimes by writing in aruz prosody and sometimes by adapting the aesthetic qualities of old poetry to modern qualities. In many of his writings, he blended old values with new approaches. An important indicator of the poet's connection with the tradition is the poet's respect for the "tuyug" verse form. Tuyug, which is not seen in Arabic and Iranian literatures and used only in Turkish literature, was not popular in our literature after the 16th century and was almost forgotten. Talât Sait Halman believed that tuyuğ could be written again in today's sensibility and wanted to revive this verse form. Talât Sait Halman brought all his poetry books together in 2008 in his work titled Ümit Harmanı. There are 101 tuyug in this book. In this study, Talât Sait Halman's tuyugs will be discussed and this verse form, which the poet re-gifted to Turkish literature, will be evaluated in terms of subject, structure, language and stylistic features, etc.