“DEDE KORKUT KİTABI”NIN KOMPOZİSYON ÖZELLİKLERİ VE ŞİİR SANATINA DAİR
ABOUT COMPOSITION CHARACTERISTICS OF DEDE QORQUT BOOK AND POETRY

Summary/Abstract: Clans of Dede Qorqut narrates events occurring around a certain hero and such a condition was a serious base to offer opinion about two levels (characteristics of composition and poetry) of Oghuzname which were related to the name of bard Qorqut. The clerk who was compiling the book of Dede Qorqut in a single book collected all twelve books each of which belongs to separate oghuz clan independently. Irregularity of composition seen in discontinuity of developments of the events in clans of the book of Dede Qorqut is also related to this matter. Although some clans of Dede Qorqut are related to the same hero and similar events, in chronological perspective, they should have been appearing in the book with different arrangements. For Instance, we can pay attention to the fact that information on Salu Kazan (second, fourth, eleventh clans) is firstly given in the second clan. In this clan, Kazan Han’s son Uruz is in independent condition, moreover, when the men go hunting, he is accredited to protect the homeland with three hundred brave men. In the fourth clan, the son of Kazan has just reached the age of competence and “did not shed blood by beheading”. Kazan Han takes Uruz with him for hunting in order to teach him hunting and fighting. Hence, in comparison to the second clan, this clan incorporates events of more historic ages. Composition features of Oghuzname tradition are seen in verse presentation of prose sections that is classical for the epics of Oghuz successors. As in many epics of the Turks, in the book of Dede Qorqut, dialogues of the heroes and their alterations are illustrated in poems. Therefore, exciting layer of Dede Qorqut language is directly revealed by poems with apologetic content.

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