세계의 사랑시: 나보이 시를 중심으로

Abstract

Focusing on Alisher Navoiy’s poems compared to the other poems in the world, this article introduces Chagatai literature and elucidates love as one of the most common themes in the creative arts, especially love of man and woman, and unrequited love leading to negative feelings such as depression, low self-esteem, anxiety and rapid mood swings between depression and euphoria. Navoiy (1441–1501) was a Central Asian Turkic poet, politician, linguist, Sufi, scientist and painter. So he is admired by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world like King Sejong in Korea. The ghazal (or gazel-love poem) dealing with the pain of love combined with the beauty of love is a unique form and originated in songs that were composed in Persia. Many variations have been developed. The form of ghazal is usually between five and fifteen couplets. Each couplet has a fixed rhyme and it appears at the end of the second line. The structure and contents of the ghazal is similar to those of the Petrarchan sonnet. Because of its highly allusive nature, the ghazal can express its central themes of love and separation in various ways, especially as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. In the ghazals, the subject of love is unattainable love which can be interested for a higher being or for a mortal beloved. It means that the ghazal sometimes reflects on a theme of unattainable love or divinity.