Korkut Ata Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

Abstract

The ruptures of civilizations cause many traditions and ideas to be questioned again. Prosody meter has been used in Turkish verse for centuries and has created a unique aesthetic pleasure. This meter has been the target of serious criticism under the influence of different literary and intellectual movements. However, the aruz meter has been persistently used by Turkish authors for centuries. In this context, the third couplet of Wasīlat al-Najāt, one of the most famous and pioneering examples of prosody in the Anatolian field of Turkish poetry, was criticized by Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, an important figure in the history of Ottoman thought and politics. Cevdet Pasha, who states that short and long readings made in accordance with the meter distort the dialect of Turkish, clearly states that he is in favor of the syllabic meter, which is also called finger calculation. These views were used as a weapon in the hands of opponents of arud in the debates on national literature and national meter. Arud opponents put forward the ideas of Cevdet Pasha as definitive proof. In this research, first of all, the basic logic that transforms the syllable structure of arud meter will be discussed, and then Süleyman Çelebi's savings will be examined. In this regard, the connection of some long readings that contribute to harmony with the main structure in the main Turkish will be revealed. Then, as Cevdet Pasha stated, it will be emphasized whether Süleyman Chelebi corrupted the dialect of Turkish, and if so, which structure of the language he damaged. In the context of the proximity and distance of the language of poetry with the language of the public, the determinations made on the subject will be listed. In this way, an answer will be sought from a different perspective to the "structure of Turkish and the conflict of prosody", which is still in the minds today.