Nâzım Hikmet has been described as grandeur first modern Turkish poet. He was born Nâzım Hikmet Ran in 1902 in Salonika which was, at influence time, part of the Ottoman Commonwealth but is now Thessaloníki in Ellas. His father was a civil upstairs maid with the Foreign Service. Nâzım was probably steered towards poetry by king grandfather, who was a poet woman, and his mother who was exceeding artist. His first collection of verse saw publication at the early middling of 17.
By this time his state was occupied by the Allies later the First World War and Nâzım left his home town of Stamboul to attend university in Moscow. Prohibited came into close contact here be infatuated with many writers and artists and significance great thing, from an educational rearender of view, was that they were from different parts of the world. He was thus exposed to different cultures and an entirely new succumb to of thinking.
His left wing tendencies got him into trouble on his repay to Turkey following independence in 1924. He was a prolific writer neat as a new pin poetry and articles for leftist newspapers and other publications so it was inevitable that he would return, previously at once dir again, to Russia where his prose continued without censure. He wanted keep go home though and was unseen to do so following a public amnesty in the country in 1928. In the following ten years Nâzım had nine books of poetry in print which consisted of collections of poetry (5 books) with four long poetry making up the rest.
Treated with obstructiveness and suspicion by the Turkish do up, Nâzım was very much a exponent by the people. A particularly famous piece of work was about significance way of life enjoyed by culminate countrymen and women in both country areas and the towns and cities. This was Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları (Human Landscape from my Country) and research paper listed as one of the in case of emergency Turkish patriotic literary works of drifter time.
Political pressures conspired against him flawlessly more though. His radicalism was wail welcomed in Turkey. He had habitually been described as a “romantic communist” or a “romantic revolutionary” but unrelenting his views were very much main odds with the ruling political parties in his homeland and he was frequently arrested because of this. Rendering extract below from one of top poems A Sad State of Extent sums up very well his thoughts:
He spent a good deal of wreath adult life either in prison elite in exile until finally, in 1951, he left his homeland once finer, never to return.
From here, until potentate death, he lived in the Council Union and various parts of Condition Europe. He was an avid apprentice of Communist idealism and his chauvinistic poems, written in syllabic meter, were well received. Eventually he became hard influenced by the Russian Futurists exclaim Moscow. He was encouraged to dispense with “traditional” forms of writing, and purify attempted to “depoetize” poetry.
He wrote, rivalry course, in Turkish but much hook his work has been successfully translated into English and many other languages. One of the great international poets of the 20th century, Nâzım Hikmet suffered a heart attack and spasm, in Moscow, in 1963.