The life, art and poems of Âşik Temelî

Minstrel literature is a repertory literature that is shaped by the poet-baksı tradition, which is based on folk literature, fed by tekke-mysticism and developed after the 15th century. The bards sing poems with kopuz and existed in the society as sorcerers, physicians, musicians and priest-poets. The fact that the minstrels are mentioned only as a musical poet shows that the division of work decreases compared to poets. The minstrel type brought new rules and disciplines to folk poetry. Going out of religious issues, themes such as love and bravery entered public poetry. Along with strict foot rules and competitions, new poetry understandings such as lebdeğmez, conundrum have emerged. Reasons such as migration from the village to the city, cultural changes, and increase in literacy rate have led to the change and development of the minstrel type. Minstrels, who grew up every century since the 16th century, reflected the political structure, life and culture of the society in their poems and became a mirror to the society. Although the power of minstrel tradition was shaken in the 21st century compared to the previous century, there are also minstrels such as Yakup Temel, who grew up in the master-apprentice tradition, who could play instruments, shoot, sing and improvise. Yakup Temel continued the tradition of minstrelship in television and radio promos, apart from minstrel meetings, and kept up with modern life. He also successfully presented poems such as lebdeğmez; has received many awards from publications, institutions, minstrel meetings and festivals. In this thesis, Yakup Temeli's life, minstrelsy, art and poems and stories in his art were examined. In the first part of the thesis, "Yakup Temelî's Life and Minstrelsy", the knowledge of Temelî's lineage, father, mother, birth, educational status, military service, marriage, children, beginning minstrelsy, the pseudonym he used, the minstrels he was impressed, the programs he received, and the awards he received were given. In the 2. chapter titled "Shape Structure and Formal Distribution of Yakup Temeli", the definition of meter is given, and the distribution of 644 poems examined according to the syllable measure is given, except for the conflicts, registers and chess section, and the station structure is determined by giving examples from these poems. Rhymes and redifs were processed through poetry examples; feet are grouped as single and rotating feet. In addition, the syllable size of the 644 poems, the stall, rhyme order, the number of feet, the number of four, the pseudonym and the written date of the poems were analyzed as a whole and the poems examined in the conclusion section were supported with graphics. Poems in the 3rd chapter titled "Topics Handled by Âşık Temelî" is devoted to the topics of national issues, religious issues, historical events, actual events, sacred issues, social criticism, folk culture; and these poems were interpreted. In the 4th chapter titled "Literary Arts in the Poems of Âşık Temelî", 19 literary arts were handled and examples of poems were given. In the section of "Story Studies of Âşık Temelî", the stories of Şahperi and Süleyman and Kurt Hasan were dealt with under the titles such as plot, source, place, concept of time, heroes, episode analysis, analysis of poems, stereotypes and language and expression. In the sixth part of the thesis, 698 poems of Âşık Temelî are listed by adhering to the order of footsteps in the last line of the first quarter. In the seventh part, the original version of the stories of "Süleyman ve Şahperi and Kurt Hasan" was included. Keywords: Poet, Minstrel Type, Minstrelsy Tradition, Âşık Yakup Temel, Folk Story