Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Folklor/Edebiyat, cilt.31, sa.124, ss.895-906, 2025 (ESCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
In modern poetry, the most common way to enrich layers of meaning is through the use of imagery and the creation of original imagery. Poets often achieve imagery, a foundational argument for meaning, by transferring it from sense to emotion, from the concrete to the abstract, or vice versa. The use of concepts from any of the five senses, such as warmth, harshness, color, sweetness, and noise, to express diverse emotions such as love, happiness, unhappiness, depression, longing, and grief, forms the basis of imaginative expression. Transferring data from one of the five senses to another, and thus resorting to intersensory transfer, is another important practice on the path to imagery. The effects that belong to the senses but remain in the surface structure but are felt as belonging to the deep structure when they transition to emotion multiply and strengthen the connotations in the poem. Consequently, the value scale of these effects is another aspect that deserves attention. The poet conveys, sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly, how he ultimately wishes the sensation or emotion he describes to be perceived. The direct use of sensory input as it occurs in nature, remaining within the surface structure, constitutes the “figurative category.” The accession of sensory input to the deeper structure through association constitutes the “thematic category.” The positive and negative aspects the poet attributes to it constitute the “value category.” Thunder, an ordinary piece of data for one poet or reader, may acquire deeper meaning and attain a “good/bad” value for another.