| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this paper is to compare with Wilhelm Dilthey and Cemil Meriç's approaches to poetry and to focus on these two important figures' differences in thoughts about poetry. These differences are mostly based on Dilthey's notices and examines poetry in detail, despite of the superficial view of Cemil Meriç about it. Dilthey and Meriç reflect and consider on history, society, philosophy, art, literature and poetry; these reflections and considerations have an essential place in their works. Dilthey, in his philosophy, attaches an importance function to poetry in the context of understanding of life. He believes that it has a nature touching on psyches of epoch. He focuses on poetry and great poets (Goethe, Hölderlerin, Shakespeare etc.) in the West literatures to explain this theory. Poetry is essential part of his philosophical system. Dilthey finds poet and poetry quite important in order to make sense of life, history and psyche of epoch. In this sense, Dilthey attaches great importance to poetry. Although Cemil Meriç has an interest about poetry, he makes superficial judgments about it. He regards poetry as only sensation, enthusiasm and claims that poetry has a problematic with truth and thought. He, sometimes, percepts and feels something embarrassing about poetry and expresses that poetry does not necessary when thinking and prose exist. Shortly, his approach to poetry reductive and non-scientific. In this article, besides of the examining the projections of these two different perceptions, also what kind of thinking exists about poetry in the West (in the history of European thought), in Turkish literature and history of thought will be briefly mentioned. To compare W. Dilthey and Cemil Meriç's thoughts and considerations on poetry have opportunity to show us the different perceptions more clearly. © 2018 Cyprus International University. All Rights Reserved. | en_US |
