orhan veli shunned everything old in order to be able to bring about a new 'taste', refusing to use syllable and aruz meters. he professed to regarding the rhyme primitive, literary rhetoric techniques such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole unnecessary. set out "to do away with all tradition, everything that bygone literatures taught", although this desire of kanık limits the technical possibilities in his poetry, the poet broke new grounds for himself with the themes and personalities he covered and the vocabulary he employed. he brought the poetic language closer to the spoken language by adopting a plain phraseology.