Abstract:

Tulip as a flower originated in Asia is a cultivated plant which has taken place in Asian, Anatolian and European cultures being from a religious symbolism to special conceptualization, from daily life to elite palace culture. This wild flower of Asia has acquired to be a cultivated plant in Anatolia. The history of the fondness for Tulip called Tulipomania in western culture and Anatolia begins in the sixteenth century. Following this period, particularly in Istanbul, growing a new type of tulip made its addicted people and poets excited to name it, and the person who gave the most beautiful name as well as raising it was awarded. The best examples of this tradition which can be considered the herald of the reflection of social life to the literature are Esâmî-i Lâle poems. The poetry firstly written on Tulip types in the seventeenth century has become the herald of the different and new type of poetry in classical literature tradition. In the poems of Esâmî-i Lâle meant tulip names, in each line, one or more tulip name is evaluated by means of several meanings. The tulip names mostly with a double entendre (tevriye) use have a symbolic association in addition to the real meaning. Further, the words and constitutions (terkip) including the concepts of flower culture and Istanbul tulip in each line have been used together. In this study, the first two lines (matla) about Esâmî-i Lâle taking place in Hâtif Divani have been comprehensively examined in a formal way.

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