BIRD NAMES IN AŞIK ÖMER'S DIVAN

Âşık Ömer, one of the leading Ashıks poets of the XVIIth century Turkish minstrel tradition, left an impact and mark on both his own period and the periods after him with the use of language in his poems. The poet's madrasah education made him closely interested in classical Turkish poetry. Thanks to his closeness to the divan poetry tradition, the poet acquired the identity of both an instrumental poet and a divan poet and became one of the leading figures of these poetry traditions. He used aruz and syllabic verse in his works. The poems he wrote in Aruz verse are more than those he wrote in syllabic verse. The most important feature that distinguishes Âşık Ömer from other saz poets is that the poet has a divan. Divan is also very rich in terms of animal names. In Turkish, animal names and related words are important for our vocabulary. The animals most mentioned in Turkish literature are birds. Due to their creation and characteristics, both real and mythological birds have been frequently used in our folk poetry and divan poetry with different analogies. In the poems, most of the human characteristics are depicted in the bird motif. In this article, the names of birds in Âşık Ömer's poems and their use in poetry will be emphasized. The study is based on the Âşık Ömer Divan, which is the joint work of Âşık Ömer, Yakup Karasoy and Orhan Yavuz; the data obtained by conducting the scanning study were evaluated in terms of the names of birds in the divan and the use of these names in poetry. Keywords: Âşık Ömer, divan, poem, bird names, bird.