Abstract:

There are various ways of obtaining, creating harmony in poems. Among these ways, notably the repetitions that contribute to the musical quality of the poem by forming a harmony have become one of the most widely used sources used by the poets in every era. The poets have created harmony by repeating vowels and consonants in the smallest unit of sound repetitions. Nowadays, the terms assonance and alliteration are used for the sound repetitions within the analysis of harmony. Alliteration is the repetition of consonants to form harmony. The art of alliteration contributes to the poem in both audial and visual ways. Classical Ottoman poetry is based on a literary language which is called Ottoman Turkish. The source of this literary language is the Arabic alphabet. It is known that poets of the classical Ottoman poetry used the letters of this alphabet as several similitude elements. It is possible to say that the sound and plastic values of the letters were taken into consideration by poets when they were used as similitude elements. In this study the unity of sound-image-harmony provided by alliteration in the poetry of Bâkî, who has been one of the greatest poets of the classical Ottoman poetry, is elaborated. When making alliteration Bâkî provided harmony by sound repetition and added visuality to poem by images of letters which are the sources of sounds. Thus Bâkî provided his poems with a two-dimensional quality: visual and audial values. Repetition of sounds is not the only quality to be taken into account in examining alliterations. The visual contribution of the sounds repeated by the poet when making alliterations to the couplet, the cycle of these sounds and the effect of these sounds on meaning and harmony should also be considered

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