Meditating on the works of contemporary American poets and environmental activists Gary Snyder and W. S. Merwin, Barış Ağır explores the traces of two central cultures, the American Indian and Buddhism, in Snyder’s and Merwin’s poetics. The book culminates in a discussion of these poets’ new mythic sense derived from non-Western origin which ultimately deconstructs the anthropocentric ethics and values of Western culture.

Barış Ağır is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Turkey.

In the perusal of the Irish literature, we see that the strength of this conservative instinct has been of the greatest service in the preservation of the early monuments in their purity. So much is this the case, that in many tales the most flagrant contradictions appear, the author or scribe being unwilling to depart at all from that which he found handed down. For instance, in the “Great Breach of Murthemney,” we find Laeg at one moment killed, and in the next riding black Shanglan off the field. From this conservatism and careful following of authority, and the littera scripta, or word once spoken, I conclude that the distance in time between the prose tale and the metrical originals was very great, and, unless under such exceptional circumstances as the revolution caused by the introduction of Christianity, could not have been brought about within hundreds of years. Moreover, this same conservatism would have caused the tales concerning heroes to grow very slowly once they were actually formed. All the noteworthy events of the hero’s life and his characteristics must have formed the original of the tales concerning him, which would have been composed during his life, or not long after his death.

Dünya üzerinde ruha dokunan, canlılığı ve içtenliği ile sizi saran pek az şey vardır. Şiir insan merakını canlı tutan, gizemli, gönülleri ısıtan, dertleri hafifleten, aynı özde birleştiren yanıyla milli ve manevi değerlerin taşıyıcılarından biridir. Bu eser her unsuruyla derin bir konu olan şiiri “algılama” üzerine kaleme alınmıştır.

Şiir algısı nedir?

Şiir nasıl algılanmaktadır?

Şiir öğrenilen bir tür müdür?

Konularına göre, okuyanın yaşına göre etkisi aynı mı kalır?

Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı derslerinde şiir öğretimi ve öğrenci algısının durumu nasıldır? Sorularına cevap bulmak için yola çıkılmıştır. Bu yolda öğretmenlere, öğrencilere, edebiyatçılara ve şiir sevenlere yeni bir soluk kazandırabilir. Günümüz okuruna, duygularını bulmakta ve anlamlandırabilmekte zorlanan modern insana şiiri hatırlatma çabasının sonucudur, bu kitap!