Edip Cansever Şiirlerinde Yabancılaşma ve Varoluş Sorunsalı

Alienation can be described as the transformation of one’s character by moving away from his/her own personality and losing interest in himself/herself and his/her environment. It has existed in nearly all eras and figures among the primary problems of modern times. The modern era confines the individual into a narrow mangle, offering him/her an abundance of possibilities within a tight and restrained area of existence, limiting his/her freedom and obstructing him/her from being himself. The modern individual finds no opportunity to look into himself/herself-his/her core within the ongoing bustle and lives without noticing life’s meaning, away from self-worth and intertwined with a material lifestyle. Alienation is a result originating from the loss of spiritual values and neglect of one’s soul by directing oneself towards material values which take him/her away from a conscious lifestyle. So much so that it is indispensable for the individual to find one’s entity and purpose of existence to lead a meaningful and livable life. An individual who reaches ontological awareness by discovering his/her existential values, leads a meaningful life as himself/herself whereas in the opposite situation the individual is condemned to a life based on existential emptiness. Alienation, which is one of the main themes of the current era, finds itself a place within various literary works and this notion is thoroughly examined in the Second New poem. Edip Cansever, who is one of the Second New poets, experiences spiritual fractures in relation to this big problem of the time; in his poems he examines the alienation of the individual from himself/herself and his/her environment from a philosophical viewpoint. In the texts, Cansever alludes to the alienation concept and the existential struggle of the alienated individual by expressing that in modern times, individuals experience a terrible tragedy, finding themselves in a schism and gradually losing their identity. The alienation and existential problematics within Edip Cansever’s poems were examined in this study.