In this study, the shadow image preferred by the Second New poets Sezai Karakoç, Cemal Süreya, Edip Cansever, Turgut Uyar and İlhan Berk in their poems is analyzed with the dimension of "awareness". When we look at the development of the shadow in the historical process, it is seen that it is understood as a force that must be defeated. The shadow, which corresponds to the other side of the "heroic" human being in genres such as myth, legend and epic, is a phenomenon whose field of meaning has been expanded with the studies on it in the following processes. With the development of psychoanalysis, the shadow has begun to be seen as a part of the self and has been perceived as a human side that needs to be taken into account, rather than an "opposing force to be defeated". In this respect, the shadow becomes an important tool in recognizing the individual and understanding his/her actions. When its presence in literary works is analyzed, it can be said that the shadow is frequently preferred by poets and writers thanks to its narrative forms and possibilities. One of the meaning and narrative connotations of the shadow image preferred in the Second New poetry is that it is a tool of awareness that calls the individual to be conscious and makes visible events and situations neglected in the perception dimension. The shadow, which crystallizes the awareness dimension of "meaning/expression" in the Second New Poetry, can also be considered as an expression of being and distinguishing.
Second New, shadow, image, symbol, Sezai Karakoç, Cemal Süreya, Edip Cansever, Turgut Uyar, İlhan Berk.