Linguistic and Poetic Features of Metaphor in the Ashug Art of Azerbaijan and Türkiye

The article examines the linguistic and poetic features of metaphors, as well as their origin and development in Ashug poetry. In the Middle Ages, Azerbaijanis and Turks lived in the same state. They fought together against common enemies – foreign invaders. The proximity of the geographical environment led to the formation of a common type of economic activity and household organization of these two Turkic-speaking peoples. The spiritual life of both Turkic-speaking peoples developed on the same beliefs and traditions, connected mainly with the same religious and moral principles and moral requirements. The same religious ideas are also important conditions for determining the general taste and rules of life. Hence, the similarity of moral and ethical norms also followed. Culture was formed within the framework of a single linguistic environment, but ethnic identity was preserved in the field of language and oral folk art.