Asaf Halet ile Wilfred Owen’ın Karşılaştırmalı Bir Okuması

Authors : Halil İbrahim ARPA

Pages : 1242-1254

Doi:10.32709/akusosbil.878506

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Publication Date : 2021-12-29

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study examines Wilfred Owen’s The Parable of the Old Man and the Young and Asaf Halet Çelebi’s Abraham with Quran and Bible. By comparing rulers in World War I with Prophet Abraham’s fatherly figure, Owen stresses that young soldiers are sacrificed on the battlefields for nothing. After a mystical inner journey, Çelebi discovers that his heart is far from the devotion and trueness of Abraham. This spiritual distance is like Owen’s rulers leaving wisdom behind for political goals. While the father figure in his poem builds a fictionalised order, Çelebi’s inner world is after the real and true one. Based on Lacan’s symbolic order, this study compares the secular order of the European rulers and the religious order of Abraham who rejects the secular order of the Nimrod and founds his own. While doing this, Foucault’s, Baudrillard’s and Deleuze’s works are drawn on. Firstly, religious backgrounds giving information about Abraham to the poets are investigated in detail, then the two poems are compared in this way. On this score, the parables of Abraham in Quran, Old and New Testament will be examined. Because there is not such a study for Çelebi’s Abraham and Owen’s poem is not examined by such a comparison; this study tries to serve a fresh reading.
Keywords : Asaf Halet Çelebi, Wilfred Owen, Prophet Abraham, symbolic order, fictionalized order, true order