Turkish Ordeal Analysis

Nazım Hikmet was one of the most influential and distinctive poets of Turkish literature. As an ardent communist, he was influenced by Soviet poet, Vladimir Mayakovski and promoted social realism in his poems. Also, he distinguished himself from the "syllabic poets" in concept and began writing in free verse, which harmonized with the rich vocal properties of the Turkish language. Kuvâyi-Milliye Destanı is one of the most famous poem books of Nazım Hikmet in which he wrote individual stories of ordinary people who had joined the National Struggle, and how their stories intertwined the grand and official narrative of the National Struggle. In this article, I am going to demonstrate similarities and differences between orthodox-official discourse of the republic about the National Struggle and Nazım Hikmet’s patriotic discourse in the second part of the book, and also how the grand narrative of the Turkish War of Independence and the stories of ordinary people was able to have been connected.
In the second part of the book, historical facts of World War I,

On the other hand, it can easily be claimed that Nazım Hikmet skillfully managed to intertwine the stories of ordinary people and the narrative of the National Struggle in Kuvayi Milliye Destanı. This proves that Kuvayi Milliye Destanı is a multi-leveled book. In the second part of book, Kambur Kerim represents these ordinary people who made many sacrifices in the National Struggle. In the quotation below, Nazım Hikmet uses vocal properties of the Turkish language in poetic harmony to pass on to the story of Kambur Kerim from the narrative of the National