Oktay Rıfat Horozcu is one of the most important poets and literary persona in the modern Turkish literature. Although he focused on the conventions of popular poetry, social traditions, and critical issues, Oktay Rıfat Horozcu also wrote abstract poems that can be called scenarios.Body and spirit represent two important aspects in human life. Human beings enjoy a binary inborn character where the spirit has a great importance like the body and sometimes the spirit has more importance than the body. Both have their needs, problems, and taste. For instance, eating while hungry is a need for the body, love and loveliness represent the need for the spirit. There exist several mental diseases in the same way there exist body diseases. The body and the spirit, which cannot exist without the existence of the other, have been identified, described, and explained repeatedly by several groups in the history of humanity. When it comes to talking about the spirit, poetry has been used to explain the elements that cannot be interpreted. Throughout history, several poets enhanced their poetry by tales of the body and the spirit. One of those poets is undoubtedly Oktay RıfatHorozcu, who is considered to be one of the most important poets in the modern Turkish literature.The paper opens with this detailed abstract. It studies then literary career of Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, the focus would be on his poetic quality. In the next section, the paper focuses on the body and the spirit. Finally, the paper studies tales of the body and the spirit in Oktay Rıfat Horozcu’s poems.
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