Fikret Demirağ’in Şiirlerinde Yinelemeler

Poetry encompasses a significant part of literary works in TRNC. The history of the Island has experienced many different kinds of changes and challenges from past to present, which has been an inspiration resource for the literary men and artists. Fikret Demirağ, as one of the most famous poets of the TRNC has always attempted to reflect these experiences in his poems. The quality of language in poetry is very important. Thus, in order to perceive and understand the language of poetry we should be aware of its language. Stylistics is the study of the language of literary texts and has many devices to analyze the language of poetry. Repetitions are numerous in Fikret Demirağ’s poetry, as one of the distinguished poets in TRNC. The study uses scanning technique to determine the kinds of repetitions in Demirağ’s peoms. This study uses Unsanl Ozunlu’s repetition categorization written in his book titled The Language of Literature. Fikret Demirağ, who formed his first poems under the influence of the second new poetry movement which affected a major community of poets in Turkey and who had remarkable progress then in creating his own poetics, began to bring forth products in the sphere of Mediterranean sensitivities starting from 1980s. Repetitions in Fikret Demirağ’s poetry encourage the reader to read the poems with enthusiasm and excitement. The stylistic devices enrich his poetry. The poet has used many stylistic devices which make his text valuable to be studied.