Training through poetry within the sample of Nabi's “Hayriyye”

Abstract

Art works have more aspects than aesthetic pleasures within their contexts. One of this aspects is “social utility” which refers to training and education of society. At that manner, poetry has a special character in training process. Especially in Turkish Classical Poetry a special kind of poem named “Nasîhat-nâme” can be seemed in this term. An important representative of this kind is Nabi who lived in 17th century. He wrote a mathnawi called “Hayriyye” aiming at telling certain truths having both religional and universal aspects. In this study, it is aimed to present the role of art works within the process of education and training by using couplets from Nabi's Hayriyye and other poems.