Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi

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Behçet Necatigil, who achieved to differentiate and make his poetry typical and original within the process by developing a dynamic poetic conscience, has qualified to be one of the cornerstones of the Turkish poetry. The poet, who used narrative and ordinary language predominantly in his poems till 1955, minimised the narration of events and emphasised the language of poetry afterwards. Moreover, Necatigil, who asserts that “Today’s poetry should proceed with references to the past as much as possible”, has become a reference source for many poets who accept articulation with traditional literature as a poetic stance. Necatigil’s assumption as a relationship based on mutual interaction and harmony between tradition and the poet has often been interpreted in conjunction with the ideas of T. S. Eliot, who is accepted as one of the founding figures of modern English poetry. However, a closer look at Necatigil’s book Bile/Yazdı in particular, it will be seen that interpreting his views on the struggle between successor (young poet) and predecessor (master poet) with Harold Bloom’s concept of anxiety of influence is possible. In this article, Necatigil’s poetic views expressed in his book Bile/Yazdı will be interpreted in the center of the concept of anxiety of influence. The thoughts mentioned on the struggle between the master (predecessor) and the young poet (successor), rivalry, envy and the struggle for existence in the aforementioned book of the poet will be discussed.