Abstract:

Sergey Yesenin (1895-1925), one of the brightest personalities of the Silver Age in Russian literature and one of the leading names in the art of poetry in Russia with his works, wrote over two hundred and fifty poems and over forty narrative poems, apart from these literary genres, he has works written in prose as well. One of these works is the story "У белой воды' (U beloy vodı), which we can translate into Turkish as "By The White Water" (U Beloy vodı ). In the story, the author describes the spiritual and physical pain of the heroine who awaits the return of her husband. The story is told as it is, without the intention of giving any message. However, the author uses rhetoric in order to strengthen the narrative in storytelling and to increase the expressive power of the ideas to be told. While the similes, metaphors and gures used in the work strengthen the narrative, symbols, images and euphemisms aim to vividly visualize situations, people and events that are not directly expressed to the reader. In this study, it is aimed to understand the essence of the story called "By The White Water", which has not been studied before and has not yet been translated from Russian to Turkish, also to analyze and examine the rhetoric used in the work.