I have read this 30 times, I am told it has to do with warfare. I can´t see that part. Can someone Interpret this Türkçe poem. I guess that I don´t understand it. Maybe I am not reading it correctlly?
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ateşler yanıyordu. Ve yıldızlar öyle ışıltılı, öyle ferahtılar ki şayak kalpaklı adam nasıl ve ne zaman geleceğini bilmeden
güzel, rahat günlere inanıyordu ve gülen bıyıklarıyla duruyordu ki mavzerinin yanında, birdenbire beş adım sağında onu gördü. Paşalar onun arkasındaydılar. O, saatı sordu. Paşalar : «Üç,» dediler. Sarışın bir kurda benziyordu. Ve mavi gözleri çakmak çakmaktı. Yürüdü uçurumun başına kadar, eğildi, durdu. Bıraksalar ince, uzun bacakları üstünde yaylanarak ve karanlıkta akan bir yıldız gibi kayarak Kocatepe´den Afyon Ovası´na atlıyacaktı.
Hi Taffy..this poem is all about Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal Ataturk,founder of republic of turkey ) and describing a scenery of turkish independence war.Just before one of the war Ataturk commanding the army on the hill of kocatepe, watching Afyon valley from the top of Kocatepe hill with his officers..here its describing Atatürk and the scenery by praising him in epic way..this is an epic poem of turkish independece and ataturk..
it would be like this..
ALONE IN THE MOUNTAINS
Fires were burning in the mountains one by one..
And the stars were so bright, so relieved..
the man with a cotton hat was believing in beautiful and prosperous days,
without knowing how and when they will come..
As he was standing next to his mauser rifle with his smiling moustache,
Suddenly he saw him five steps away him...
And all the Pashas (generals) behind him..
He asked the time,Pashas said its ´´three´...
He looked like a blonde wolf,
And his blue eyes were sparkling..
He walked up to the edge of cliff...
and he bent down,and stopped..
if they ever let him,
He was ready to jump off from Kocatepe,
On to the Afyon Plain,
by bouncing with his thin and long legs..
and slipping like a star flowing in the dark.
Note : the person described in heroic way in the poem above is Ataturk ,founder of Turkey..its an epic poem written by Nazım Hikmet Ran who is one of best poets of turkish language..
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