Reflections Of The Social Life From The Verse Forms In Classical Ottoman Poetry

To say that Classical Ottoman Poetry consists of only aesthetics and pleausure and different meaning maps cannot be derived in this poetry means someone do not understand the Classical Ottoman Poetry thoroughly. When the vers forms by which Classical Ottoman Poetry were written are examined carefully it will be seen that subjects like inequity and injustice could be treated in the qasida verse form which strikes as eulogy. Besides, with the ghazel verse form in which generally the love of ∗ Dr., Fırat Üniversitesi. Klâsik Türk Şiirinde Nazım Şekillerinden... 803 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 4/2 Winter 2009 feeling was expressed in a lyric way, subjects like making marginal and injustice were treated, too. It is a sign of verse forms of the Classical Otoman Poetry are beyond the settled and the classic understanding.