FOUR POEMS FOUR DIFFERENT SULARÎ Cover Image

DÖRT ŞİİR DÖRT FARKLI SULARÎ
FOUR POEMS FOUR DIFFERENT SULARÎ

Author(s): Hasan Bektaş
Subject(s): Poetry, Turkish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Motif Halk Oyunları Eğitim ve Öğretim Vakfı
Keywords: Sularî; Alevi-Bektashi poetry; tradition of âşıklık(minstrelsy); poetry analysis; difference;

Summary/Abstract: Davut Sulari is one of the most important Alevi-Bektashi poets who has lived in recent history. Sulari is a traveling and beatified poet and he has a strong improvisational ability which influenced to next Alevi-Bektashi poets because he played the saz with his own unique attitude and he does one’s duty his Alevi sheikdom responsibility. He created different poetries with different emotions, so much so that his religious poems and his non-religious poems that like had been said from different mouths. At the same time, the subject of his works was influenced by different poets, and according to these, he changed the structure of his poems and also his discourse. Sulari is associated with Pir Sultan with his moralist idea in his religious poems, in the meantime, he evokes to Karacaoglan with realistic love and realistic beauty in his non-religious poem. Because of this difference, we analyzed his poems that can be classified as religious, non-religious, communal and individualist, by the "Method of Poetry Analysis". In this way we understood that Sulari has got different acquis to different subjects and sought to show that he changed the formal structure of his poetry according to the subject he was working on. When we analyzing the poems, also we took into mind the social and religious structure of Alevi- Bektashizm inspite of observed these poems on the main subject. Thus, a non-religious poem is not perceived as a religious poem. In addition in this study, it will be exemplified how the minstrels benefit from the possibilities of the tradition in different subjects.

  • Issue Year: 14/2021
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 94-106
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Turkish