Vedi AŞKAROĞLU

A person begins to question the meaning of his/her existence in the presence of pressurising spaces of the soul. Death, destruction and war are concrete cases which put great pressure on the soul of humans. These phenomena not only make humans question everything meaningful but also sweep away all the mening of life, for humans have always been directed to live with others in the same space depending on them. In the case of death, the value of emotions, ideas and sharing turns into dust and nihilism, and losses emerge like messengers / clues of one's finite fate. Destruction leads to complete absence of understanding for a mind used to living in a cosmos based on logical cause-effect relationship, and humans suddenly find themselves in a horrible case of hollowness and chaos. Violent image is the tragic scream of a person who suffers from existential agony, questioning both his/her own identity and the community s/he lives in, in the presence of destruction, annihilation and loss of meaning. Violent image, which reflects the verbal incarnation of futile questioning and emotions, has an important significance in the poetry of Ataol Behramoğlu, who has a sensitive mind. Behramoğlu writes about the reflections of his mind against death, destruction, war, degeneration and loss of meaning on a personal level with the subject "I" and on a universal level with the subject "we".

Key-Words: Violent Image, Ataol Behramoğlu, Destruction, Death, Loss of Meaning, Degeneration