The Disintegration of Mind and Complexities of Mevlânâ in N. Hikmet’s Universe of Art

Abstract

Nâzım Hikmet lived his childhood and early youth ages in a family and society with western and eastern life styles. By one side he grows up open to the western effects, on the other side to the eastern effects. This dual structure creates in his inner life with the time a conflict area that causes consciousness disintegration. İn his preteen years he writes national and religious poems proper to the atmosphere of the period. From his grandfather who was one of Celaleddin-i Rumi's followers, Nâzım Hikmet shows adherence to Celaleddin-i Rumi and his world view. But later he opposes Celaleddin-i Rumi with a rubai he writes. One year before his death he needs to revert to Celaleddin-i Rumi in 1962 with his novel called Yaşamak Güzel Şey Be Kardeşim. İn this paper we want to display Nâzım Hikmet's admination to Celaleddin-i Rumi, later his turn against him, and return back to Celaleddin-i Rumi again. We want to search his psychologycal foundations as an investigation topic, analyse the rubai he wrote against Celaleddin-i Rumi with intertextual context, set up our opinions with the themes permanence and transitoriness.