Poetry
Sahra
Not translated into English
Abdülhak Hâmit Tarhan · 1879
Synopsis
A collection in ten parts that sets the countryside, the sahra of the nomads, against the city and its townspeople. The poet prefers country life, where he places happiness and peace, to the artifice of the city; according to Ali Erol's study, nature holds the greatest place in the first two parts, the first of eighteen songs, the second of nine. He changes the stanza, the rhyme or the metre as he pleases, in forms that Turkish poetry did not yet know.
Context
According to Ali Erol, of Çukurova University, the poet wrote it in Edirne in 1875 and published it in Istanbul in 1879, on his return from Paris; it is his first collection according to turkedebiyati.org. The study reads in it a break with classical poetry, where nature was only a motif of description, and relates his preference for the natural over the artificial to the ideas of Rousseau. An earlier essay by Münif Paşa shows, according to her, the old manner from which the collection departs.
Who it is for
A poetry collection in Ottoman Turkish, in free forms; no translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
The first pastoral work of Turkish literature according to turkedebiyati.org, and a first in its praise of the fields according to Ali Erol.
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