Love is the state of emotion that an individual feels towards people, situations or concepts which have the image of the ideal lover that he or she has set up in his/her mind and desires. The efforts to define love are built on emphasizing the importance of human beings in self-knowledge and to establish an ontological existence. Literary work tries to comprehend the individual and social existence of human beings. Kemal Özer is one of the artists who reflects the human being in his poems both with his individual and social identity. He carries love on his texts that has universal value in every period and often forms the frame narrative of the themes of death, loneliness, jealousy, the transfer of social value. In this study, in paralel with the intellectual and ideological change in the world of the poet, the perspective differences of the object of love will be evaluated.

Anahtar Kelimeler
Love, Kemal Özer, individuality, social realism.