Dicle Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

Öz

One of the most important features that distinguishes human beings from other living things is that they have the concept of time. The person living in the moment, on the one hand, goes back to the past and probes his memory; on the other hand, he dreams about the future and enters into expectations. It affects the meaning that he attaches to the time they live. Poets/writers, on the other hand, handle this situation with different emotions and styles. Various psychological states, troubles in the external environment and unsatisfactory environments push the poet to discontent with the period. It leads to a search for a fairer, more pleasant and peaceful past. In Classical Turkish poetry, some poets wrote down their longing for the past, being dissatisfied with their time, according to their life experiences and emotional states. In this study, texts containing praise for the past and satire for the past due to personal or social reasons and concerns are discussed. In this respect, the contents of the texts regarding the styles of satire and eulogy were also taken into account. In these texts, references were made to the famous and sought-after figures of the past, and they were conceived from time to time within the knowledge and consciousness of history. It has been observed that these poems that we have identified increased in the seventeenth century, and the social disintegration and failures in the state administration increased the desire to return to the past. In this respect, partial references have been made to the historical contexts of the poems. The production process of these poems and the issues that attract the poet to this theme have been touched upon. The meaning frames of the texts of the poems have been tried to be given and it has been exemplified that the divan poetry can hold a mirror to the historical events.