Ben Sana Mecburum / You are indispensable
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Autor:
Atilla Hamdi İlhan
Country:
Turkey (TR)
Book Theme:
Poets reperesenting yuor country poetry
Publisher:
İş Bank Kültür Pub.
Publishing Year:
1960
He was born in İzmir Turkey.In İzmir Atatürk High School, he got into trouble sending a poem by Nazım Hikmet, a famous dissident communist Turkish poet, to a girl he was in love with. He was arrested and taken into custody for three weeks.
He was also dismissed from school and jailed for two months.Following a favourable court decision in 1941, he got permission to continue his education.His uncle sent one of his poems to CHP Poetry Competition without telling Attilâ. The poem, Cebbaroğlu Mehemmed, won the second prize among many poems written by famous poets.He left Istanbul University’s law school to publish his first poetry book, Duvar (The Wall).He went to Paris in to take part in supporting Nazım Hikmet. His observations of the French and their culture influenced many of
his works.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Atilla İlhan greets the reader with a tired, ruined, smitten and drunken Istanbul in his book titled Ben Sana Mecburum. By mixing himself so much, he transforms his verses into what
remains in the mirror of society and the individual, leaving what is left behind, transforming his era and himself into an urban legend. Even though the book is created under 5 titles, we can interpret the book in 3 different Atilla İlhan moods: Prisoner, lonely and dedicated. In his poems, in which we
feel his captive mood, there is a portrait of Atilla İlhan who does not fit into his shell, as well as a
portrait that he sees as occupied. Or there is a situation where he is suppressed from all four sides and cannot feel belonging. Loneliness is most often encountered in love poems. Atilla İlhan’s loving verses mostly relate to the absence, departure or death of his beloved. We can say that there is almost no happy poetry for Atilla İlhan. The passion of devotion, as the strongest emotion that envelops the whole of Atilla İlhan and that he cannot give up, appears in the book titled:Ben sana
mecburum. Death is just an extra, whose presence he feels step by step, in his lines where people who he can’t compare to anyone on the street, news of death come one after another and more are encountered. His dedication and unruly belief allow him easily to give up on many things, including life and people
