مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري

Abstract :

Just like art, literature is inspired by nature, and artists imitate nature in their work. Men of letters, on the other hand, garnish their poems with nature. One of the most important beauties presented by nature to mankind is flowers. In literature, particularly in classical poetry; flowers have become indispensable symbols for poets due to their various features. Even though flowers like “rose, tulip, carnation, daffodil, iris, and jacinth” are the most popular flowers; violet has also been properly involved in poetry due to its numerous features. With its closeness to soil, color, scent, leaves and various species; violet has been significantly involved in both love poems and sufi poems. Violet has occasionally been a remedy for the patients, offered to guests as wine and to lover’s hair as a scent. In this study, we reviewed more than a hundred ottoman poems in the Classical Turkish Literature, determined eulogies and odes repeating violet and classified them according to their meanings. We reviewed approximately 110 divan poems and as there were too many couplets mentioning violet, they were not involved in the study. 4 eulogies and 14 odes and one na’at mentioning violet were mainly examined in the study. Considering these data; their symbolic and real meanings, as well as their mythological values are examined in the present study.