An Analysis With The Ode (lyric) of Şeyhülislam Bahayi Efendi in The Frame of Criticism Directed to Ottoman Poetry

Divan poetry has managed to attract attention as a tradition that continues for centuries without a sigrificant change with a deep-rooted history that makes us feel the impact at periods when it is heavily critized and even today. It is jarred by the blows from the west whilemaintaining its important impacts which is stil worth dealing with andwhich shows its power since centuries in terms of the theme andcontent. With the advancement of the West in various fields, a desire tocreate a Western understanding of poetry causes diatribe in Ottomanpoetry as a result of wish for innovation that emerged in TanzimatReform era appearing necessity of change and progress neededexplicitly with the beginning of the West’s pressure on the OttomanEmpire.By emphasizing how to be revealed such critics as artistic andheavy language, imagination system, not being national, artificiality andinsincerity, the lack of integrity of the subject and not dealing withsocial issues are tried to exemplify with the investigation on text. Thelyric (ode) of Şeyhülislam Bahâyî Efendi studying the themes such aslove, lover, the beauty and disloyalty of lover, seperation, missing andconvergence in his lyrics (odes), which is one of the beautiful examplesof Ottoman Poetry is chosen though he writes in various poetry typeswith the aim of investigation. The purpose of the study is to pick up allthe assessments directed to Divan Literature and put forward the criticsand anti-thesis against these critics with the examples by investigatingand try to determine the effects on folk poetry and daily poetry,concepts and the way of images which are handled and the structure interms of syntax in the framework of the critics.

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