On the Tracks of Literary Structure in Literary Work (a Sumerian Poem)

Abstract

Poem is thinking with images; art is the one that cannot become without poem and image. Whether it is written in the eras B.C 4000-2000 in Sumerian language with cuneiform script or in modern-day language, poem takes its source from human soul which carries universe's soul. Even a daily life moment, a birth which is ordinary to us, has poetry inside that carries the traces of the first act, the cyclical image. (Mother Goddess) The first word, name that is whispered into newborn's ear with breath, is a symbolic expression of his life's refreshing power. Since the synthesis of common symbols of imagination is created from personal and social unconscious, despite of conscious will, it protects its continuity in every era and it can be seen in different branches of art. This study is focused on the first example of literary work; literary output, in other words Sumerian Poem, abstract literary interpretation and the analysis of the tracks of literary structure in here and its tangible expression. In the study, visual expression is also used. Style is examined within the frame of main tendency of “name and the refreshing power of word” in poem's subject. In the study, stylistics’ methods of literary works examination are considered. Internal structure in poem is studying as a communication. It has been presented that the language must be approached not only with grammatical structure as it is in theories of linguistics sees and studies the language as a social entity after 1970, when literary work is in question in Sumerian language and poem, but also relevant with spiritual, semantic, symbolic, logical, physical, social, semiotic and religious.