DİVAN ŞİİRİNDE RENKLER
COLORS IN “THE DİVAN POETRY”

Summary/Abstract: Many societies have given a variety of functions colors. Colors form different layers of meanings in each society. Societies giving these meaning World to colors result from their both historical and cultural savings. Ottoman Empire, having sheltered a lot of elements, had a very diverse structure. It also show its governmental structure and diversity in literature. Ottoman society is reflected to Ottoman poetry in either direct or indirect ways. The most important element that is processed in Ottoman poetry is culture of color. The diverse structure of society provided to give different meaning to colors. İt’s highly possible to see that Ottoman poets used these meaning differences in their poem. Poets didn’t use colors in a monotonus way in their poetry. They included the colors to their poems by giving them both sybolic and fictitious functions. They, sometimes, directly used the colors names and sometimes by using elements that would evoke the colors. The poets using the colors in their poem like this brought about a harmony in their Works. With the usage of colors, these harmony become more vivid and fluent.

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