LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN THE POEMS OF THE BALKAN POET ILHAMI EMIN
Research Article
LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN THE POEMS OF THE BALKAN POET ILHAMI EMIN
ABSTRACT
Macedonia, which is one of the most important and central regions in Ottoman Rumelia and one of the
ancient regions of the Balkan geography, is one of the countries that has been active in Turkish literature
from past to present. İlhami Emin, one of the most important names of contemporary Balkan Turkish
literature, was also raised in these lands. He is a versatile literary figure who was born in 1931 in the town
of Radoviş in Eastern Macedonia, lived in the Rumelian geography, and contributed great works to Turkish.
His life is also the story of the Balkan Turks from the post-Ottoman period to today. Rumelia's vibrant
political structure, which emerged in the second quarter of the 20th century, greatly affected İlhami Emin's
educational life; Serbian and Bulgarian respectively in the schools he attended; Later, after the Bulgarians
withdrew from Macedonia, he learned Macedonian and Russian as a foreign language. Before the end of his
childhood, he learned four foreign languages besides Turkish. This difficult educational life that he went
through must most likely have supported İlhami Emin's artistic background. While Russian enabled the poet
to read Russian classics in their original language, it also provided him with the opportunity to research
literary products of other languages. He improved his Turkish by taking Turkish lessons from Ferid Bayram,
who served in Turkish schools during the Ottoman period, and by listening to Turkish radio. The problems
that İlhami Emin experienced in learning Turkish did not prevent him from becoming fluent in Turkish over
time. In this study, it is aimed to reveal how the Turkish literature kept alive in the Balkan geography is
embodied in the poems of a poet, in the niversitesicontext of the understanding of language and style that
the poet acquired with such difficulty. In this study, a qualitative research method based on an interpretive
approach was used by examining documents. The principle of induction was adopted in the study based on
İlhami Emin's life story and works.
TOPRAK, A.,
(2023). LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN THE POEMS OF THE BALKAN POET ILHAMI EMIN. International Journal of Education and Philology, 4(2), 106-113. Arrival Date Posted By:https://ijep.ibupress.com/articles/language-and-style-in-the-poems-of-the-balkan-poet-ilhami-emin
