Abstract
ABSTRACTNâzim Hikmet’s representation of nature in his poems became a powerful incentive to political action in the 2013 Istanbul Gezi Park protests. Protecting trees meant challenging divisions between the human and the non-human through communal acts of civil disobedience. This action and the literary models that informed it are relevant to current issues in ecopoetics. This article identifies four interlocking categories of nature in Hikmet’s poems: Anatolian nature poems, poems of land and resistance, nature in exile poems, and Istanbul nature poems. In these poems a sustainable land ethic is synonymous with political pluralism and nature is harnessed as a resource for social change. Nature, the literary arts and socio-political protest are fused in the poems and give rise to Nâzim Hikmet’s relevance to contemporary environmental movements.
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