Can Şen, Serpil Akgül

Keywords: Asaf Halet Çelebi, modern Turkish poetry, divan poetry, ghazel

Abstract

Asaf Halet Çelebi is one of the most important poets of modern Turkish poetry. In early of his poetry life he has written in terms of divan poetry some ghazels. We examined in this article ghazels of Asaf Halet Çelebi who has abandoned this kind of poems afterwards. In addition we displayed how Asaf Halet Çelebi to show loyalty to divan poetry and relations between him latest poems and ghazels