Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices (Dec 2022)

The Image of Soviet Russia in the Short Poems and Poems of the Turkish Poet Nazim Hikmet Ran

  • Merve G. Dogan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22363/2618-897X-2022-19-4-662-674
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 4
pp. 662 – 674

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The article is devoted to the study of short poems and poems by the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet Ran (1902-1963), reflecting the images of Soviet Russia. The article analyzes the frames and subframes that construct the image of Soviet Russia; studies the specificity of the realities of Russian culture; analyzes the observations, ideas and impressions of the Turkish poet about the way of life in Russia in the first half of the 20th century; reveals the correlation of the image of Soviet Russia created by the Turkish poet with the archetypes of Soviet Russia in the works of Nazim Hikmet Ran. The purpose of this article is to identify the languacultural specifity of the image of Soviet Russia in the work of Nazim Hikmet Ran. The material for the study was short poems and poems written by the poet during his stay in the USSR in 1921-1930. The research methods of this article are semantic analysis, linguacultural analysis, complex analysis, observation method. As a result of the analysis of the texts of short poems and poems, frames and subframes that construct the image of Soviet Russia in the poetic picture of the world of the Turkish poet are revealed.

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