Makedonyalı Saîd ve Şiirleri

Abstract

Turkish literature, which was forged by a certain aesthetic and cognitive understanding in the Ottoman cultural territory and renewed itself in accordance with cultural transformations, was represented in every region of Ottoman geography. Utterances, cast under the impact of local varieties, have taken the form and spirit of the area where they sprang forth and rendered the form of utterances visible while the main character was exposed to no dramatic alteration. Rumelian mode in the utterances is one of the examples. What this paper dwells on is the poems and poesy of Said the poems of whom were found in the OMCT I/150 conk registered in Macedonia National Library (Narodna I Univerzitetska Biblioteka Skopje). Said, who lived in the cities Kalkandelen and Gustivar currently within the borders of Macedonia in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire, was brought up in a social circle in which Bektashism predominated. In his poems, the imprints of Sufism publicly and the culture of Bektashism individually are observed. The cities and villages of observation; descriptions, reviews and the materials which concern the history of the city in his poems make him significant. In our article, prominent sides of Said’s poems were emphasized; the use of language, his preferences of rhythm and subject and poetic forms which he used, have been pointed out. Some inferences about the literal position of the poet in Turkish Literature were made. The study was completed with a few selected examples of his poems.