THE CONCEPT OF LOVE AND LOVER IN FUZULI
FUZÛLÎ’DE ‘AŞK VE ÂŞIK KAVRAMI

Author : Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Number of pages : 131-155

Abstract

The Poet Fuzûlî was one of the earliest great poets the history of Turkish classical literature, and was widely considered to be the most outstanding of them all. He lived (c. 1495?- ? 1556) during the golden age of literature, in the reign of Kanunî Sultan Süleyman “ The magnificent.” Fuzulî wrote poetry in tree important languages of his time. Fuzulî’s poetry is filled with emotion, sensibility, pathos, melancholy, sweet sorrow, and sombre reflection. Every classic poet has his own romantic accent, corresponding with the scope of his intuition and the degree of harmony or conflict which the vision of the truth creates in his heart.He expresses the misery of mankind, the reing of chance and error, and the tragedy of fate. In the dictionary, love means that extreme and intensive affection, devoting oneself to his/her lover, being keen on his/her partner as cannot see anything or anybody. There are a lot of poets who has written pleasant love poetries in Turkish Liretature. One of these poets is Fuzuli. We’ve generally touched on love, philosophical love and love according to people leading sufism in this workout. And then we’ve scanned Fuzuli’s Classical Otoman Poetry and mentioned that how he described love and lover in his own poetries.

Keywords

Love, Lover, Fuzuli, Classical Otoman Poetry.

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