Hikmet - Akademik Edebiyat Dergisi

Abstract

A literature that lives in society, by its very existence, makes the mobility that exists within this social structure its subject. As a requirement of this directive, poetry, which is undoubtedly one of the strongest language fields of literature; He transferred content from experienced life-related issues such as birth, death, circumcision, marriage, war, peace, conquest, earthquake, appointment, promotion, architectural construction and revival. While doing this, it used the data analysis of abjad calculus, which has a mathematical infrastructure. This literary effort, also called history reduction, has been used by many poets. Sufi-poet Mehmed Elif Efendi, who lived as a witness of the circle of civilization until the first quarter of the XXth century, also contributed to this tradition of dehistoricization, mentioned in 11 of the 151 poems in his Dîvân. This study aims to present the poet's many historical poems, which are independent of each other, have social meaning, with different content and methods. For this purpose, the content analysis of the poems and the poet's method of composing these poems will be presented to the attention as content and method analysis. In addition, the target poems will be used as full text with transcription. The tradition of writing historical poems that reveal the social texture in a chronological order and Elif Efendi's poems, which are a small circle of this tradition, are extremely important in terms of reflecting the harmonious unity of the individual combined with aesthetics and social structure.