Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
İdealkent, cilt.11, sa.31, ss.1812-1830, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
This study dealt with the representations of the city along with characters and images in Arthur Symons’s (1865-1945) selected poems. Symons was a significant poet of English fin de siécle period with his poems and literary works. He developed the inheritance he got from the Victorian verse and paved the way to modernism. Therefore, he became one of the key figures of modernism by means of his treatment of city life in his poems, for example, he employed certain places and locations from music halls to brothels, graveyards to prisons. As for the critical framework, Henri Lefebvre’s space theory was applied in this paper because he explored space from a social perspective which rendered scholars to concentrate on the city with all its components as well. This paper aimed at revealing the relationship between the city and poetry by analysing the urban elements in Symons’s poems with regard to Lefebvre’s theory.