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The 4th International Social Research and Behavioral Sciences Symposium, Antalya, Turkey, 19 - 21 October 2019, vol.1, no.1, pp.254-261, (Full Text)
Irish poet James Clarence Mangan influenced many of the Irish writers and poets of the forthcoming generation but his own works could not get the literary attention he deserved, either in or outside Ireland. Although the poet never left Ireland, he portrayed many different geographies in his poems. In addition to that, the poet was especially inspired by the Ottoman geography and particularly its sultans and literature. Despite the unique quality of his writing, Mangan has not received much attention in Turkish academia apart from a few articles that commented on his life and work. Mangan’s poems include various themes and images that await the attention of Turkish academics. Based on this need, this study aimed to focus on Mangan’s poems written between 1838 and 1844 to show how childhood is represented in his poems. While doing that, how Mangan portrayed childhood as a personal and experiential phenomenon is exemplified through an analysis of the images used to depict childhood both as a stage in one’s biological life as well as a phenomenon surrounding his personal material.