Abstract:

Vocabulary analyses of literary works are critical in stylistic analyses in literature. In this context, certain centerpieces that are remarkbly prominent with frequency of occurrence in a given literary work are examined through frequency analysis methods. It has been found out that the word sea and the pertaining symmetries built with other words in the framework of meaning in Divan of Nabî (died in 1712), a poet in the 17th century Turkish literature, are frequently used as a part of wording. The material that has resulted from reviews bearing this fact in mind is theoretically examined within the framework of views about tenasüp in rhetoric and linguistics. Verses involving the symmetries built in the framework of the sea theme in Divan of Nabî are broadly judged on its own merits and grouped under three main titles: 1. Examples of Tenasüp, 2. Examples of İham-ı Tenasüp 3. Examples of Tenasüp in verses including Mürekkep Teşbih and Leff ü Neşr. The word sea and the vocabulary built with other words in the framework of meaning in Divan of Nabî are shown in this process. Explorations of vocabulary to produce symmetries in textual analysis are made according to theme specific tenasüp created by denotations of words. Whether the words that are included in tenasüp not with commonly used denotations but with their figurative meanings in textual context are shown in the sequence of tenasüp words is discussed and presented with extracts from Nabî, under the title of Role of Figurative Words in Tenasüp. It is assumed that there are two probable factors that influence sea-specific tenasüps in Nabî’s wording. The first is Nabî’s aspiration for a life in somewhere coastal and the second is the fact that the theme sea is eligible in concretization of abstract thoughts in didactic manner. As a matter of fact, it is obvious that such a concrete-abstract relationship is commonly found in the related poetic samples.

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