İdil Sanat ve Dil Dergisi
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Cilt 1, Sayı 4  Güz 2012  (ISSN: 2146-9903, E-ISSN: 2147-3056)
Hasan Aktaş

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1344558427 IMAGE OF MOTHER AND CHILD IN CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY TURKISH LITERATURE

Abstract

Family plays a significant role in history of Turkish culture and social life. And child is always in the focal point of family. Children are seen as guarantee of future in social life. In this context each family intend to bring up their children according to some certain principles and to gain them to society.
Sociology, psychology and science of education have important contributions in bringing them to society. Beside this, poetry has a quite different function in making children ready to life as psychologically and morally. Because of that, poets are very sensitive to give place to children in their poems. Our poets, loaded some allegorical features to children from Dîvan poetry to modern poetry of nowadays. They produced interesting images about children. In ancient Turks, each male child borns as a lover while each female child borns as a beloved. This event is also valid in present-day. The theme of child in Dîvan poetry takes part in our world of poetry with very interesting images by changing and transforming with modernization corona.