Neo-epic ？nterpretation of Ahmethan Y？lmaz’s “Californian Brasserie Restauran”

As a writer contributing to children's literature, Ahmethan Y？lmaz introduced himself in the 1980s. His poetry books Sokaklar A？mak and Ankara ？？ Sava？？nda ü？ Hainin Portesi, which were published in the 2000s, show the power of his poesy, too. The power of Y？lmaz's poetry comes from his sensitive, experimental and epic character poems he wrote in the social direction. What led him to write such sensitive poems was his meeting the Neo-Epic Poetry that was pioneered by Hakan Arslanbenzer in the 1990s. The Neo-Epic Poetry emerges to confront with twentieth-century poetry on behalf of the society. Neo-Epic or with a different name, New Heroic Poetry, is the effort of seeing the world, which is the subject of a story, without ornaments, naked and sometimes even uglier than it really is in order to emphasize something well enough. The intention of the poet is to try to change minds. The epic poet who has no power to change the world chooses to change minds. Our epic poem, which started with the Nam？k Kemal, Tevfik Fikret and Mehmet Akif in the modern Turkish literature, continues this direction with the ？kinci Yeni. As of the 1990s, it sustains its existence with its neo-epic character that is included in daily life. The poem Californian Brasserie Restauran published in Ahmethan Y？lmaz's poetry book Sokaklar A？mak was written in accordance with the experimental and Neo-Epic Poetry style of the 2000s. In this article, the poetry of Ahmethan Y？lmaz, the characteristics and, the characteristics and techniques of neo-epic will be discussed and the poem Californian Brasserie Restauran poem will be analyzed in the context of Neo-Epic Poetry