Korkut Ata Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

Abstract

Oral and written culture products contain countless elements of human, life, nature and living things. Folk and divan poetry, which are two indispensable branches of Turkish literature, also contain many characteristics and elements belonging to human beings, nature, life and living things. Contrary to popular belief, divan and folk poets, which have intense commonalities of form, subject and imagination, treated nature and living things from different angles in their poems. Although the poets who grew up in both traditions wrote poems in different styles, they dealt with the elements in Turkish culture or added later. In this respect, folk and divan poetry have similarity in subject, source and place to place. Examining these similarities or commonalities will contribute to Turkish literature research. In this study, a study about the dove bird in the poems of Karacaoğlan, one of the famous poets of folk literature, and in the Divan of Bâkî, who is one of the representatives of divan literature, was put forward. This analysis has been handled in terms of the commonality of divan and folk literature. Firstly, the commonness of divan and folk literature was mentioned in the study. Then, various information about the dove / turtledove bird was given, and the quatrains and couplets in which this bird appeared in the poems of Karacaoğlan and Bâkî were examined. At the end of the investigations, it was tried to reach a conclusion about how the dove bird is handled in the poems of Karacaoğlan and Bâkî.