Alfred de Vigny’den Yahya Kemal Beyatlı’ya: “Kurdun Ölümü” Şiiri Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Abstract

Alfred de Vigny's "La Mort du loup" (1938) is a leading representative of French romantic poetry. "The Death of the Wolf" is one of the first poems that comes to mind when considering both the romantic period and Vigny's poetic work. This study presents Alfred de Vigny's poem in terms of the romantic trends of the time and attempts to analyze it. After giving basic information on Romanticism and Vigny’s poetry, we describe the historical and literary context in which he worked. As the poem deals with a hunting story, observations were made both in terms of romantic aesthetics and narrative logic. For the purposes of writing this article we tried to translate this poem – without being too ambitious - , as it had not yet been translated into Turkish. In so doing, we were able to focus on the transfer of meaning The main objective is based on an analysis that addresses the basic semantic and thematic structure of poetry. In addition, the study gives an evaluation of the writing bond between Yahya Kemal Beyatlı and Alfred de Vigny. As Yahya Kemal used the wolf metaphor in reference to Vigny's poem in his article on "The Female Wolf and The Cubs", the relationship with this image in the text as well as the intertext horizon between the two poets will be treated.