Orhan Veli Kanık

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April 13, 1914 in İstanbul, Turkey

died

November 14, 1950

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Poetry

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Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli was a Turkish poet. Kanık who is the founder of Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet has moved to the poetic language, utterance of man-in-the street by purposing rootedly to change the old structure in Turkish poetry. The poet made fit many works in the story, the essay, the article and the translation field, as well as his poetries into his 36 yearly life.
Orhan Veli who kept away from the old one everything to be able to uncover a new pleasure refused to use syllable and aruz meters. He stated that he unnecessary finds the litary arts such as metaphor, simile, exaggeration; primitive the rhyme. Kanık's this desire whom set out so as "to take all tradition, every what bygone literatures t...more Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli was a Turkish poet. Kanık who is the founder of Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet has moved to the poetic language, utterance of man-in-the street by purposing rootedly to change the old structure in Turkish poetry. The poet made fit many works in the story, the essay, the article and the translation field, as well as his poetries into his 36 yearly life.
Orhan Veli who kept away from the old one everything to be able to uncover a new pleasure refused to use syllable and aruz meters. He stated that he unnecessary finds the litary arts such as metaphor, simile, exaggeration; primitive the rhyme. Kanık's this desire whom set out so as "to take all tradition, every what bygone literatures taught" although decreases technical possibilities in his poetry; the poet has created new fields himself with topics which he has taken in hand, persons who he has mentioned and words which he has used. He has approached to the spoken language poetic language by adopting a simple expression. His poetries was published, which are examples of this ideas in the poetry book the named Garip whom they released together with his friends, in 1941, and it has caused to the emergence of the Garip movement. This movement has large striken on Republic period poem between the years 1940-1950 especially. The Garip poem is accepted a touchstone in Turkish poetry both with destructive and constructive its feature.
Kanık was largely odd previously through these innovatives whom he has brought to the poetry, he received very harsh criticisms, and was despised. Orhan Veli' works which digress of traditions although was responded to with fun and insult later, wonder and being out of it before, always aroused interest. This interest however, caused to increase of understanding, affection and admiration whom have felt for the poet soonest. Sait Faik Abasıyanık also has characterized as "a poet atteined to both fair name and notoriety in time; the again be amitted, the denied again, the won regocnition from time to time, the made fun of he from time to time, the most emphatical" him by calling attention to this aspect of Orhan Veli.
Although he stands out with his poetries which he has written in period of Garip, Orhan Veli had abstained to write "the single species" poetries. Kanık's literature life whom had lived the adventure of a long poem during his short life, had been renewing himself, had been searching without cease has been consisting of different stages. Oktay Rıfat has explained with his says "Orhan lived in his very short lifetime a poetry adventure for a few generations of French poets. Turkish poetry became a horsehead with Europe poetry through his pen.", and "A changing which a few generations may achieve back to back maybe he completed in a few years." this situation.(less)

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Average rating: 4.30 · 523 ratings · 25 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Bütün Şiirleri 4.38 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 1951 — 4 editions	My rating:
	أنا : أورهان والي by Orhan Veli Kanık, عبد المقصود عبد الكريم (ترجمة) 4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	رنگ قایق‌ها مال شما by Orhan Veli Kanık, شهرام شیدایی (مترجم) 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1383	My rating:
	Seçme Şiirler Orhan Veli 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Beni Bu Güzel Havalar Mahvetti: Kendi Sesinden Şiirler 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	تو خواب عشق می‌بینی، من خواب استخوان by Orhan Veli Kanık (Poet), احمد پوری (Translator) 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	I am Listening to Istanbul: Selected Poems by Orhan Veli Kanık, Talat S. Halman (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Şairin İşi: Yazılar, Öyküler, Konuşmalar 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	My rating:
	الأعمال الكاملة .. أورهان ولي by Orhan Veli Kanık, عبد القادر عبد اللي (مترجم) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Hoşgör Köftecisi 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:

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“لا يعرفُ
أولئك الذين لا يعيشون وحدهم
كيف يكون الصمتُ
مرعبًا
كيف يكلم شخص نفسه
كيف يعدو إلى المرايا
جائعا إلى روحٍ
لا يعرفون.”
― Orhan Veli Kanık, أنا : أورهان والي

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“All the things we did for this land of ours!
Some of us died;
Some of us gave speeches.”
― Orhan Veli Kanık

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“I don't love her anymore
So
Why should I walk
Nights
By the tavern
Where I drank
Every night
Thinking of her?”
― Orhan Veli Kanık, I, Orhan Veli

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