"Taze can buldu cihan" : Osmanlı şiirinde bahar
Author
Kalender, Arzu
Advisor
Kalpaklı, Mehmet
Date
2002Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
ThesisItem Usage Stats
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Abstract
In Ottoman poetry, bahariyyeler are important since they show how
phenomena in nature affect the poet’s imagination and indicate the extent to
which nature and humanity interact with each other. In Ottoman society, the
spring season affects poets ant artists both in their daily life and cultural life
and plays an important role in forming the artist’s aesthetic sensibility and
cultural activities. Spring, setting up a socio-cultural environment, is the
favoured season with the Ottomans, since it produces sociological and
psychological effects. The relationship that Ottoman poets establish with
nature creates an independent aesthetic understanding rich in symbols. In
addition to hinting at the personal world, these images include references to
social life. In bahariyyeler, it is possible to see how poets transform what
they perceive in the world of phenomena into poetic images and how they
express these phenomena in an ideal understanding of beauty using the
metaphorical connotations contained within their depictions of spring.
Working with these conceptions based on their perceptions of nature, the
poets form figurative representations and, as a result, create a metaphorical
world in their poetry. The poet, carefully noticing every object in nature, turns
poetry into a miniature microcosm virtually containing the larger macrocosm.
In this microcosm, one can find the Ottoman State in its many guises from
daily life to military life. Studing the depictions of spring in the Ottoman
kasides can explicitly show how nature influences social and individual
activities. Starting from nature, the Ottoman poet creates a different world
and gives a different meaning to every object within the world. The
depictions of springtime reveal the extent of interaction between the
intellectual and creative powers of the poet, besides showing that nature
exerts a dynamic and creative function on the poet’s images and works.