The Poet in Consciousness: The Aquif and Its Subject Civilization

Mehmet Akif Ersoy takes the social benefit as a basis in his understanding of art due to the conditions of the period. The benefit in question is based on an awareness-based basic principle in Akif’s art. Awareness is an indispensable part of Akif’s movement and action-oriented artist temperament. The poet who is above consciousness is ready to give this consciousness to the order of the society. The poetry of Akif, which carries the society to its works in all aspects, contains errors, problems and suggestions for solutions. Because Akif remains alone with the problems that came before the transfers in terms of Ottoman politics. ABSTRACT Mehmet Akif Ersoy, with his first book Safahat, partners us on a journey of thought. Akif, who reads French writers and thinkers and prominent poets of our classical literature, produces his works in a kind of personal style. The main carrier of Akif’s personality formation is Islamic religion and civilization. In his art, although the elements of harmony and form of the divan poetry are indispensable for his style, the thematic structure of his poetry focuses on the idealism of interventionist practical behavior far beyond an outside intellectual inertia and irresponsibility. Akif’s poem is loaded with the agents of an absolute state of consciousness kneaded with idealism. values. /