Orhan Veli Kanık

Who was Orhan Veli Kanık?

Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of he founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet! instrumental in moving the poetic language to include the man-in-the street by challenging the established structure in Turkish poetry. The poet crammed an impressive volume of works such essays, articles and translations, as well as his poetry into 36 short years

Orhan Veli who kept away from the old one everything to be able to uncover a new pleasure refused to use syllable and aruz meters. He stated that he unnecessary finds the litary arts such as metaphor, simile, exaggeration; primitive the rhyme. Kanık's this desire whom set out so as "to take all tradition, every what bygone literatures taught" although decreases technical possibilities in his poetry; the poet has created new fields himself with topics which he has taken in hand, persons who he has mentioned and words which he has used. He has approached to the spoken language poetic language by adopting a simple expression. His poetries was published, which are examples of this ideas in the poetry book the named Garip whom they released together with his friends, in 1941, and it has caused to the emergence of the Garip movement. This movement has large striken on Republic period poem between the years 1940–1950 especially. The Garip poem is accepted a touchstone in Turkish poetry both with destructive and constructive its feature.