Abstract:

When the works in the field of classical Turkish literature are examined, it can be seen that apart from love, everything in social life from A to Z, from cosmographic elements to plants, from religious sciences to superstitions, from hadith quotations to idioms, is included in this literature with different contexts and means. In this context, rain is also a theme which appears in the emotions, thoughts and imaginations of poets and which has a relatively common use. In this study, the couplets which were directly dealing with rain or which included elements indirectly associated with rain, such as clouds, mountains and thunders by 25 classical Turkish poets who lived in 16th century and whose names are included in the bibliography were identified by scanning the related diwan. Following this, the couplets which were identified were examined with subtitles of natural elements related to rain; elements associated with rain through analogy or metaphor; information on rain based on tradition, belief or experience; verses, hadiths and idioms on rain and other elements related with rain. The sample couplets included in the study to support the information given were classified and explained in accordance with the context of the article. This study, which was prepared with subtitles created within the framework of the main title of rain, aims to show how classical Turkish literature poets perceived rain, which meanings and which elements they associated it with, and what kind of an emotion, thought and imagination world was created in the context of social and cultural life over the years.

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