Journal Name:
- İstanbul Üniversitesi LITERA, Journal of Western Languages and Literatures
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Abstract (2. Language):
Children's literature in Greece appears mid-19th century but begins to develop rapidly from the mid-20th century, after the fall of the dictatorship in Greece in treating the child with great tenderness and respect. This paper will observe the child in the poetry of four major Greek poets, one of whom has been awarded the Nobel Prize, because we believe that in order for the study of the image of the child to be complete, it should include the child in the adult world and through the eyes of adults. Modern Greek poets place the child in the wider social and cultural environment of the poetical universe, integrated into the wider intellectual sphere of Greece. This integration, in our opinion, is useful for scholars of modern Greek Adult and Children's Literature in many ways, mainly, because this integration places the child in a natural, social, political and cultural framework, that is forcefully experienced, without the beauty of the child's world that is confined to texts written specifically for children, as realistic as it may be. In studying Greek poetry for adults, we generally discover that Greek poets treat the child with great tenderness and respect, despite the negative treatment of the child in society or by the state, as often depicted. They feel compassion for the child and struggle for it. For this reason, when they depict the child as a victim of certain social and political situations, they sympathize with it and protest against this misery and unfair treatment. In most optimistic cases, the poet portrays the child as the most innocent being in the world and the greatest gift to man.
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