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In this article, the book ‘Home Time’ by one of contemporary Turkish poets, Abdulkadir Budak, through the contained poem ‘Home, Pain’ on focus is examined. Although the review is partly based on disciplines as anthropology, psychology, mythology, yet any of these has been selected as the dominant method. In this examination in terms of the theme by the help of these disciplines, the nature of art has been meticulously considered. Because the work of art has a nature that cannot be limited to the particular inspection methods of definite disciplines. The book subject to examination in this article is written in a style that encompasses a certain theme by the poet. As a living space home impacts on the poet are manifested in different aspects in each poem in the book. Yet the clearly emerging situation is the instability and uneasiness of the poet as an individual against home. This vacillating state and the poet’s state against the house are accompanied by intense contradictions. Home as the family’s living space, has created difficulties for the individual poet expressed by almost tragic tone. The subjects are the house centred everyday life on one hand, the problems created by that very life and a space resourcing and shaping the everyday life on the other hand. Although the narrative style is prevailing on poems in general, the poems have features exceeding the narration with the arrangement in a flow accompanied by patches of implication and irony, elaboration of fine details and association level.