Özet:

Nature and “Mountains”, which are the most important elements of the nature, are important settings of the folk literature and folk poetry. Mountains in the folk poetry are a real vital part of the nature; they are not fictional settings. In the present study, five hundred poems of Karacaoğlan, who is one of the important representatives of the folk poetry and defined as the poet of love and nature, were taken into consideration. In the poetry he composed, the lives of the Turkomans which were decorated with time and place depending on their socio-cultural structures are depicted. The names of the places Karacaoğlan was brought up and visited (provinces, villages, mountains, plateaus, mountain passes, plains, lakes, springs), the language he used (descriptions, methaphores, local uses), and the traditions, customs and clothing of the Turkomans, their nomadic culture, social and historical events shed light on Karacaoğlan’s both natural and arranged environment, shortly, his living space. We see within the general nature of Karacaoğlan’s poetry that “Mountains “are very important elements of the nature. “Mountains” in Karacaoglan’s poetry characterize both a “mountain” as a part of the nature and a “mountain” depicted by him to tell what he wanted to tell. Karacaoğlan always used the nature in general sense and a “mountain” in a special and narrow sense in the context of its relationship with people. The present study emphasized how Karacaoglan told us his inner world, internal-intellectual life concept, character and excitement, discussed how Karacaoglan presented the objects, expressed his feelings by using his perception of mountains and revealed the relationship of “a mountain”, which is a spatial phenomenon and perception, with a human .

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