An ontological study of minstrel Veysel's poems

Minstrel-style folk poetry is the verse products created by minstrels who grew up in public, performed their works with instruments, and adhered to the oral poetry tradition, with syllable meter and special forms. Minstrel Veysel, one of the representatives of the 20th-century minstrel tradition, expressed the subjects he dealt with in his poems with his instruments. With the influence of the environment in which he grew up, he contains Anatolian wisdom in his poems. In his poems, Minstrel Veysel also touched on philosophical issues such as being, wisdom, morality, beauty, and goodness in his poems, knowingly or unknowingly. From this point of view, we see the traces of the traditional worldview in the literary products of the people. Minstrel Veysel's poems about his view of existence contain concepts similar to the ontological approach, which is the science branch of philosophy. Ontology, which takes the existence and whole of existence as its subjects, treats existence as a "being" on its own. Based on the analysis of the real world by Nicolai Hartmann, the founder of the new ontology, with the system of layers of being, Ismail Tunalı applied the same ontological method to his works of art. He divided the ontic structure of his works of art into layers with the "Ontological Analysis Method". These are 1) Sound Layer, 2) Meaning Layer, 3) Object Layer, 4) Character or Spiritual Layer, 5) Destiny or Destiny Layer. In our study, some of Minstrel Veysel's poems on existence will be examined with the "Ontological Analysis Method". Keywords: Minstrel Tradition, Minstrel Veysel, Ontology, Ontological Analysis Method