Analysis of Aşık Deryâmî's poems in terms of criticism

Âşık Deryâmî is one of our last period minstrels. Emerged from among the common folk, he was kneaded with that folk's culture. He dedicated a big part of his life to poetry, and had to suffer from a lot of wealth and moral problems. Though he was a very huge minstrel, he unfortunately never got the attention he deserved in his life. In this study, definition of criticism, historical development of criticism, development of criticism in our literature , poet's life, a critical analysis of his poems were mentioned in detail. Deryâmî, criticized, stuations such as failing parts of society and government agencies, bad habits of the people, economic straits, disloyalty of beloved. The poet also has made heavy criticism in some of his poems. We see criticisms similar to insults even swearing in his poems. Minstrel also fruquently used irony in his poems. At the same time, we believe that our study will help researchers to transfer the tradition of minstrel literature, one of the building blocks of our popular culture, to future generations. Prof. Dr. Halil Açıkgöz's work is the much used source in the thesis because of it's nature of a comprehensive study. Besides, it was benefited from theses, treatises related to folk literature, articles, periodicals. Keywords: Minstrel, Deryâmî, Criticism, Folk Literature.