Loneliness and Contemplation
of Death in Robert Frost and Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca's Poems
Dr. Özgür Esen
ABSTRACT
The first half of the twentieth
century was of great significance in the history of the world since
social, economic and political circumstances influenced every field
of life deeply all over the world. Literature also took its share
from those developments and many changes from themes to new
narration techniques appeared in the field of literature.
Experiencing the period in which new aesthetic understandings
emerged in literature clashing with the former established ones, the
literary figures of the era were divided into groups. While some
insisted-on praising and advocating the established norms, some were
inclined to the modernist attitude supporting the significance of it
to be able to reflect the feelings of those experiencing the era.
However, there appeared some poets, like Robert Frost and Fazıl
Hüsnü Dağlarca, who tended to form a hybrid structure combining the
old with the new. In this regard, this study offers a comparative
examination of Frost and Dağlarca’s selected poems, analysing how
they reflect the pessimism of the twentieth century through
loneliness and contemplation of death.
Keywords: Comparative Literature; Robert Frost; Fazıl Hüsnü
Dağlarca; Loneliness; Mortality.
