Talk:Orhan Veli Kanık

POETRY OF ORHAN VELI Orhan Veli is a great poet of his time, not just influenced the turkish poetry as well as across all around the world. He was interested in literature since he was in elementary school,where one of his teacher was Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar. He first published his poems together with his classmates Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet Anday. His poetry had elements of surrealism and japanese haiku, which he leads this with his great concise and clear expressions.

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Veli was able to publish a literary journal, Yaprak [Leaf], for 28 issues until a cerebral hemorrage ended his life.

Orhan Veli was part of a turkish literary movement called Garip movement. Garip movement was a reaction to the classical poerty of his time where followed the aruz and rhyme. Orhan Veli broke the conventional mold of polite Turkish verse. While discarding rhyme and meter Orhan Veli espresses an almost nihilistic world view.

He felt that we "must free ourselves from poetic conceptions and from the effort to make the use of words beautiful."

SOME OF HIS VERSUS He has written quite a number of poems, please see the references below for more.. His famous versus in his autobiography: "I was afraid of frogs when I was 1. I started reading at age of 9, and interested in writing at 10.  I was introduced to Oktay Rifat at 13, at 16 to Melih Cevdet Anday I went to pub at 17, I started drinking raki at 18...  I fell in love  alot, never got married."'''

His famous versus from a poem: "I wish I was a fish in glass of raki... 

Listening to istanbul I am listening to Istanbul, with my eyes closed. The drunkeness of ancient feastings in my head. A seashore villa with dim -lit boathouse With howling of the dying west wind I am listening to Istanbul, with my eyes closed. ....

Song of Istanbul In Istanbul, on the Bosphorus, I am poor Orhan Veli; I am the son of Veli With indescribable sadness. I am sitting by the shore of Rumeli, I am sitting and singing a song:

``The marble hills of Istanbul, Landing on my head, oh, landing are the sea gulls; Hot, homesick tears fill My eyes, My Eda, Full or airs, my Karma, the fountain salt Of all my tears.

References:
 * translated by Murat-Nemet-Nejat
 * [official web site]-Official web site of Orhan Veli
 * [His Life ]-His Life
 * [Poems]-Some of his Poems

--Dogansolen 23:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)