The Concept of Apostrophe and Apostrophe in Turkish Poetry from Tanzimat to Servet-i Fünun

Apostrophe is addressing a dead or imaginary person, a nonexisting place or thing or a personalized abstract idea. There isn’t a lirerary art that corresponds apostrophe directly in Turkish Lierature before Tanzimat. The purpose of this study is not questioning if this art was used or not in Turkish Literature before Tanzimat but although there are different approaches based on the meaning of apostrophe which is addressing a personalised abstract concept, a dead person or an inanimate object; the purpose is to concentrate on reasons of apostrophe usage, that has been used in Western Literature since ancient Greek period in this way, in Turkish poetry after Tanzimat. We also think that turning onto the world, that is in a Western attitude in Tanzimat reform era ,can be examined on the apostrophe concept. As a reflection of the idea of realising God by wisdom and the reflection of the new human-nature intellection, this new attitude which is seen on Tanzimat 1st generation men of letters appears apparently on Tanzimat 2nd generation men of letters’ works and especially on literal Works of Abdülhak Hamit by impression of Romanticism. However we see that apostrophe is used more often within the frame of new Godnature-human intellection during Servet-i Fün？n period when a “new-old” struggle was ended by the victory of the “new” and a new literature was appeared exactly.？n this regard, in Tevfik Fikret and Cenap ？ahabettin’s poems, we can see apostrophe examples that is often used in Western literature as a “literary art”. Especially the poems of Cenap ？ahabettin contains apostrophe examples which can be interpreted on God-nature-human intellection in a Western content within the frame of his nature perception and the idea of the soul of nature