Özet:

Ottoman poets mentioned many scenes of nature and everyday life into their poems. Since XVIth century, shadow play having an important place in the social life of the Ottoman has began to processed in all vitality in poetries. In XIXth and XXth century, for the purpose of forming a national or western literature Turkish poetry had been accused of being old, cliche, artificial and breaking from social life. In fact Turkish poetry mentioned many indications and details about social life. Moreover it can be said that the speciality, which ordinary scenes of daily life place into poems with many references. This is characteristic feature of the classical poetry. It doesn’t seem possible that such poetry tradition doesn’t use Karagoz plays which affect Ottoman-Turkish society deeply as a poem materiel. The perde ghazal read by Hacivat in preface of Karagoz plays carries all the features of classical poem in terms of form and content. However, relationship between poetry and shadow play is not limited with this. Many divan poets who wanted to add a different flavor to their poetries tried to get original images with the elements of shadow play. Even if figured in previous centuries, the name of Karagoz has taken place in poetries especially as from XVIth century and this shows that shadow play gained a national and local character in this century. When the function of Karagoz generally is searched in poetries, tips related to how Ottoman society evaluated this game can also be seen. In this study, it is going to be emphasized how Karagoz was used as a poem material, in which ways it was mentioned to poems and to be given the wordbook of the words used in poems in order to refer to shadow play

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