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Ayten Mutlu published her first poetry book in 1984. She made
translations from contemporary poets from English to Turkish. She prepared a
comprehensive anthology which many women poets take part in for the purpose of
promote their poems from old ages to today. Her poetry books issued in India,
Macedonia, Serbia, Romania and France. Nature, time, love and society are
the main themes of Ayten Mutlu's poems. The poet reflects her view of life in
the light of these themes and captures a unique and simple voice in her poems.
Emphasizing the inability of the human in time
to her poems, the injustice of nature and the injustice of love, Mutlu happily
announces the song of the society she lives in to the reader. According to
Ayten Mutlu, the measure of societies' development is the value given to women.
The increasing role of women in society is reflected in the world of poetry. In
her writings on poetry, she also reflects her views on the poems of the poet
Mutlu in her poems. Questioning the role of women in history and mythology,
Ayten Mutlu criticizes the strict rules of patriarchal order. In her poems, nature is effective as poem subject. She
tells the uncontaminated and untouched story of geography by humans; leaf,
tree, wind and sea. In her writings, she opens the new windows to reader by
touching on ‘the painful history of woman and especially their struggle of
existence’, in her poems, she reflects the history and Greek mythology, the
love on the axis of the woman body. The aim of this study is to show Ayten
Mutlu's method of writing poems and sources of poetry. Mutlu, who makes
references to the poems of her earlier poets, reflects the cultural bearing
characteristics of the language in her poems.