İhsan Raif Hanım

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Poet (b. 1877, Beirut / Lebanon - d. 1926, Paris / France). She was the daughter of Flag Officer Köse Raif Paşa. She traveled to many places due to his father’s duty, and she didn’t have the opportunity to study at official schools. Hence, she didn’t have a regular education. She took French and music lessons in her younger years. Due to her father being a civil servant, who was a friend of Mithat Paşa, she went to various provinces. After the Constitutional Monarchy, she settled in Paris and married Şahabettin Süleyman there, who was the second of her three husbands. Her body was brought back to İstanbul from Paris and buried in Rumelihisar Graveyard.

In her poems, besides the love of nature, grief and childish joy, nationalist feelings were also dealt with. İhsan Raif, who also experimented with poems in the style of the bards with the influence of Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı, wrote in her poems using the woman as the beloved like male poets. Despite not succeeding too well in regard to artistic value, she attracted attention because in her poems she brought a very delicate sensitivity. She was accepted as an important poet due to her style and being the first woman poet to write in syllabic meter. She collected her poems in her only book, Gözyaşları (Tears, 1914).

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