FIERY CLOTHES OF DIVAN POETRY
DİVAN ŞİİRİNİN ATEŞTEN KIYAFETLERİ

Author : Hilal NAYİR EKİNCİ
Number of pages : 401-409

Abstract

After being discovered and used in a controlled manner, fire has contributed to the development of mankind in many ways. Fire has affected almost every culture, except mythology, beliefs, magic, etc. The fire, which has an important place in the life of the societies, has also been important in the Ottoman society and has been influential in social life and culture. It is possible to see the traces of this activity in divan poem. Divan poets have taken fire with different directions and made simulations about fire in their poems. The analogy and dreams of fire have been diversified over the centuries and some analogies have been stereotyped.In the Divan poetry, there are also some elements about the understanding of the clothing that reflects the cult period. The outfits have entered the poetry and are aesthetized. Divan poets have made analogies by taking various characteristics of clothes and have expressed abstract concepts by taking advantage of these elements which are concrete with some associations. Metaphors and fantasies about the elements of clothing are emerging in almost every century. In poems of poets, these elements are the manifestations of their occupation in the divan poetry of the elements of daily life. The presence of these elements in poetry is also important in terms of reflecting your cultural wealth.The connection between the clothes of the divan poets and the fire will be handled, and examples from different centuries will be emphasized and the information between the fire and the dress will be determined. The examples where the fire and clothes are put together will be classified by using the divans, and from which angles these two elements will be reflected to the Divan poetry.

Keywords

Divan, fire, red, clothes

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