Abstract
INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE IN MINSTREL VEYSEL'S POEMS
The minstrel style poetry tradition has an important place in Turkish culture. Countless minstrels have been trained in this tradition from Turkestan to Anatolia, and they continue to do so. Among these minstrels, there are many minstrels known by everyone, and one of them is undoubtedly Minstrel Veysel.
Minstrel Veysel is one of the leading minstrels of minstrel literature in the 21st century. He was born in the autumn on a long and narrow road, lost one eye at the age of two and the other eye at the age of seven, could not study due to his visual impairment, could not join the military, was bought a reed to amuse himself, lost his tongue after the age of forty, grew the first orchard in his village, lived for seventy-seven years. and he gifted 170 of his poems to the Turkish nation. In his poems, Minstrel Veysel expresses universal values such as justice, family happiness, peace, unity and solidarity, respect for elders, environmental awareness, friendship, democracy, human rights, progressivism, universality, sacrifice, national consciousness, kindness, love, sharing, humility and loyalty. He is a lover who brought
In addition to all these concepts, one of the concepts that Veysel expresses in his poems is heart. The concept of heart, which entered Turkish folk poetry with Yunus Emre in the 13th century, has been used in poems by many poets since then. The heart, which started with the poems of Yunus Emre, has become an indispensable subject in both Classical Turkish Literature and Turkish Folk Literature.
Although not as much as Yunus Emre, the concept of heart has found its place in various aspects of Âşık Veysel's poems. In this study, the concept of heart in Âşık Veysel's poems will be discussed and interpreted from various perspectives.
Keywords
minstrel, Minstrel Veysel, human, love, heart.
