Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Lâle Müldür, who works in poetry, novels, and narrative genres, is one of the most important poets of Turkish literature after 1980. In some of her poetry books (Ercan Arslan’s paintings accompany Lâle Müldür’s poems in Kadınesk), Lâle Müldür combines poetry with visuality, as if relaunching the fashion of poetry under the painting in the Servet-i Fünûn period. Lâle Müldür, who also makes use of English, German, and Italian words in her book Yellowish/Saffron, attaches importance to polyphony/meaningfulness in poetry. In Yellowish/Saffron, the poet also gives successful examples of postmodern and visual poetry with expressions that surprise and shock the reader from time to time. Yellowish/Saffron is a book that consists of different poems or sections that can be read like a river poem. The poems in Yellowish/Saffron can be analyzed individually and as a whole. In the book, some poems that complement each other in the context of piece-whole relationships and common traces resemble a chain (like RNA) visually and semantically. In this article, the poems in Lâle Müldür’s book Yellowish/Saffron are analyzed in the context of the elements symbolized by colors (especially yellow and red). It is emphasized that the poet creates a melancholic atmosphere with her repeated yellowish in her poems.