MERZİFON CÖNKÜ
MERZIFON’S CONK

Summary/Abstract: Merzifon, the largest district of Amasya, has been an important cultural center for centuries. This center has a very important place in shaping our literary life and has liked many poets and poetry art lovers. The difference of Merzifon from Amasya is that it is a town and has a position to bring together folk poetry and divan poetry. Çorum, Kastamonu, Sinop, Samsun as a large settlement on the way to such centers has brought it to this position. The town served as a resting, breathing inn on the route of the folk poets. The fact that the poets living in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had to stop in this environment made Merzifon the center of poets and poetry lovers. Merzifon ‘s poets and art lovers did not make any mistakes in hosting the folk poets who came and went, so the attraction of the center increased. The prominent names such as Dertli, Emrah, Nûrî and Aşık Ömer accepted the invitation of Merzifonlu poets like Eyüp Sabrî and added color to the art life of the center. The manuscript that we have called Merzifon Cönkü is a rare artifact created by this environment. The most interesting aspect of this work, which we have included in our library from Merzifon, is that the poems of the people and divan are recorded equally. There are dozens of poems written by folk poets as well as poems from the great divan poet like Bâkî. On the other hand, mani from koşma or dozens of poems have been brought together in this cönk. Of the thirty-two poets, the poet, containing 161 poems, concentrated on the poems of Tokatlı Nûrî. Poems, written in koşma and mani and divan, semai, kalenderi, satranc, gazel, şarkı written in aruz. The book has a total of 98 “aruz” poems and 63 “hece” poems. In this study, we aim to present the properties of the Merzifon Intensity and the first verse units of the poems it contains.

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