Folklor/Edebiyat

Abstract

Shehrengiz can be defined as a poetic genre that presents the beauties of a neighborhood,
who are famous in various arts and professions, with the elements of social life and
local beauties of that neighborhood, with vivid descriptions and colorful
praises. Shehrengiz texts have an important place in terms of not only recording
the famous tradesmen, but also shedding light on the socio-cultural structure of
the period they belong to, containing information about social and economic life,
and reflecting features of daily spoken language. When evaluated together with
the poet’s style, shehrengiz works should be considered as socio-cultural keys that
involve many clues in the context of the structure of the society and the historical
texture of the place or places in question. In Turkish literature, the shehrengiz type,
which was mostly written in masnavi verse, began giving examples at the beginning
of the 16th century and continued until the late 18th century. The text, which
is the subject of the study, is the Lâlezâr (Yenişehr-i Fenâr) shehrengiz consisting
of 524 couplets, in which Vahîd Mahtûmî, one of the 18th century poets, describes
the characteristics of the city of Yenişehir, which is located in the borders of Greece
today. Based on the text written in the form of masnavi, the places where the poet
gave place to his description and the atmosphere created from these places were
evaluated and the literary features of the expression were emphasized. The aim
of the study is to illuminate the image of the city in the period and to reveal the
effects of the places whose atmosphere is reflected on the mood of the people and
social life by reading the characteristics of the places mentioned from the style of
Mahtûmî, who successfully reflected the folk language and daily life conditions
into poetry in the 18th century.