Time, which witnesses change, transformation, a lot positive and negative de velopment; gets away from the starting point in a continuous and fast way is animportant phenomenon that leads humanity. People start to question the speedand flow of time after understanding it through the changes that have been expe rienced. Individual, who realizes the relationship between time-change and speedas he/she gets older, prefers either ignoring or not thinking about the death whichis the end of time, or he/she prefers to live in the integrity of past-now and futureto make time and experience, which is a part of time, continuous. Yahya Kemalpreferred the second one throughout his life and he presented his preference inhis works. It is possible to say that nostalgia did not ruin Yahya Kemal’s perceptionof time and his harmony with life. He was a nostalgic person who could transferthe past to the present and the future, ensured the formation of the collectivememory and made it gain its continuity, and tried to catch the evolution by com bining time and space. Nostalgia was one of the determinants that creates hispoetry both in terms of theme and aesthetics and in terms of message. The senseof nostalgia, the attractive object of nostalgia and nostalgic attitude of Yahya Ke mal were directly influential in the emergence of his works. In this study, how hisnostalgic manner affected his poetry is going to be analyzed.