of his poetry was more indirect than direct, using thick imagery so as to create a strong sensory impression, as in the opening lines of his famous poem from the book Piyâle, "Merdiven" ("Stairway" or "The Ladder"): آغير، آغير چيقه جقسْك بو مرديونلردن أتکلرکده کونش رنکى بر ييغين ياپراق ..و بر زمان باقاجقسك سمايه آغلايه رق ،صولر صاراردى ... يوزك پرده پرد صولقده ..قزيل هوالرى سيرايت که آقشام اولقده Ağır, ağır çıkacaksın bu merdivenlerden, Eteklerinde güneş rengi bir yığın yaprak, Ve bir zaman bakacaksın semâya ağlayarak.. Sular sarardı.. yüzün perde perde solmakta, Kızıl havaları seyret ki akşam olmakta... Transliteration: Slowly you will ascend these stairs, A bundle of sun-colored leaves on your skirts Then a moment you will look, weeping, at the skies... The waters yellow.. as your face pales bit by bit, Watch the reddened air for the evening sets in Transfiguration: Heavily, ascend heavily the rungs, Skirted in a pile of sunwashed leaves, In time you'll look to sky in tears. Murky waters ... pleats, fading pleats of your face, See the crimson air as evening to be .. (The form of ellipsis is borrowed from the original author.) This poem also shows one of the tropes that Hâşim shares with the Symbolists; namely, he uses carefully selected natural images to express the emotional state of the poem's persona. Many of Hâşim's later poems, especially those collected in Piyâle, use this technique in a very brief and evocative fashion, showing the influence not only of Symbolism, but also of the haiku poetry that Hâşim was reading at the time. Ahmet Haşim founded a literary magazine, Dergâh, in 1921 together with another significant figure Yahya Kemal. Bibliography Poetry Göl Saatleri (گول ساعتلرى, "Hours of the Lake"), 1921 Piyâle (پياله, "Goblet"), 1926 Prose Bize Göre ("According to Us"), 1928 Gurebâhâne-i Laklakan ("Nursery for the Storks"), 1928 Frankfurt Seyahatnamesi ("Journey to Frankfurt"), 1933 See also List of contemporary Turkish poets Notes References Primary Haşim, Ahmet. Bütün Kitapları. İstanbul: Oğlak Yayıncılık ve Reklamcılık Ltd. Şti. 2004. . Haşim, Ahmet. Bütün Şiirleri. Ed. İnci Enginün, Zeynep Kerman. İstanbul: Dergah Yayınları, 2003. Secondary Özdemir, Ahmet; ed. Ahmet Haşim: Hayatı—Sanatı—Eserleri. İstanbul: Boğaziçi Yayınları, 1997. . 1880s births 1933 deaths Writers from Baghdad Turkish poets Turkish writers Galatasaray High School alumni Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni 20th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire Burials at Eyüp Cemetery Symbolist poets Turkish magazine founders