ÂYİNE DERGİSİNDE PORTRE ŞİİRLER.

The inaugural issue of the Ayine newspaper was published on August 18th, 1921 in Istanbul. It was published weekly, on Thursdays and continued with 72 issues. Although, the sub-title of "Ayine" mentions that "it is a humorous newspaper", it would be more accurate to call it a "journal" as it is produced once a week. Yusuf Ziya signed four of the portrait poems in "Ayine" with the penname "Çimdik," while Faruk Nafiz signing as "Çamlıbel" wrote one. They also published one each under their names as "Yusuf Ziya Bey/Portraits" and "Faruk Nafiz Bey/Portraits". This paper transcribed seven portrait poems from the magazine's early issues into Latin letters, and assessed them in light of the writers' personal histories and personas. In particular, the paper tried to determine the humorous element in the poems and nalyse the lements of humor. The examined portrait poems were then compared with the portrait poems written in previous periods, by poets/personalities who were generally loved, considered masters and respected. Thus, one of the aims of the study was to examine how contemporary poets use verse to expose each other's weaknesses/flaws of poets/personalities. This study, therefore, is unique in that it demonstrates via examples how portrait poetry may also be used to address the flaws of the subject's cherished personalities in addition to the praise and glorification of those individuals. The poems under discussion are especially significant since they are original poems at the intersection of under-picture poetry and portrait poetry traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]