Nâzım Hikmet Ran

His life

He was born in Thessaloniki on January 15, 1902, graduated from Heybeliada Naval Academy and was appointed as a deck officer to the Hamidiye Cruiser. Once the disease was recovered, he was removed from the army with a health board report. After being removed from military service, he moved to Anatolia to join the National Struggle. However, during his years as a teacher in Bolu, he went to Moscow for security reasons. He studied Economics and Sociology at Eastern University in Moscow. He wrote his first free poems in Moscow. When he returned home, he published various magazines and published poems in the magazines. After that, life was arrested and exiled. Nazım Hikmet, who also wrote an editorial and editorial book in the name of Orhan Selim in the newspapers of the Evening, Last Post, Tan, remained in a very difficult situation because he was sick after years of prison in Turkey and did not make a regular income. The poet, who was afraid of being killed, went to Russia again with a Romania-flagged ship. Nazim Hikmet died in Moscow on June 3, 1963.

Literary Personality

He published his first poems in the years before the Republic. At first he wrote poetry poems, then passed the free measure.
The poet has brought a great extent to the poetry in terms of the theme as well as the form, the poetry language has brought to the extent that it will affect the ones after him.
Nazim Hikmet, who does not make a distinction between the unused words used in poetry, played a major role in the development of the free form of play with the originality of using the strings.
He wrote poetry propaganda based on the address. (Twenty-four Hour Marks / twenty-four hours Lenin)
There is an effective style of the poet who makes propaganda of communism.
Influenced by futurism. Machine sucks longing, even wants to be a machine. Particularly influenced by the Russian poet Mayakovsky.
There are also other poems in the scenario air of his long poems.
It is the forerunner of free and socialist poetry in our literature.

If we summarize briefly

Although his first poems written were meticulous and sloppy, he later turned to free poetry and provided recognition and settlement of free poetry.
The Divan and the People have integrated the characteristics of poetry in a contemporary understanding and have used a very successful and lively language in their works.
Under the influence of the Russian poet Mayakovsky, he wrote poems influenced by the futurism movement.
The artist, who usually expresses social issues in his works, has been the pioneer of "socialist realistic" poetry.
In addition to poetry, he gave works in play, letter, story types; especially with his poetry books "835 Lines, Human Landscapes from My Country".
He used a small number of poems in his poetry, brought in very short strings along with long strings, and always started with the other letters outside the first string.