The life, art and poems of Abdülkadir Güler (Geylani); a representative of tradition minstrelsy in Aydın

We investigated the Abdulkadir Güler's life, art, masterpieces and the tradition of Aydın?s minstrelsy in our thesis. The purpose of this investigation is searching the contribution of the Güler?s poem to the literature of minstrelsy and to help in the XX. century tradition of minstrelsy?s estimation.Our project was prepared to examine Abdülkadir Güler?s life, his literary, personality and his poems for the content of the bard?s literature in Aydın. Up to the present literature, information is given about the literature of minstrelsy, representatives and tradition of bard?s literature in prolog. In first part, to investigate the Abdülkadir Güler?s lifestyle , characteristic properties, status of the traditional literature,and viewing of the folklore.In Second part, poems were eveluated to the specifications, litrary arts, configuration of the expression and style of literature theme. In Third part, Abdülkadir?s poems were classificated to the subhead about the type of poems and forms. In the last part, the subject of poems were seperated to the nine headlines and researching about this situation. In generally, Güler defined the love, darling, bad behaviour of society and mystic theme.Investigated to fifty-two of one hundred three poems were written syllabic with 11, by Abdülkadir Güler.The most popular syllabic is 8 syllabic meter in Abdülkadir Güler?s poems. Full rhyme and half rhyme was put account in to the these poems.Güler?s poems were written hortative and didactic strong language, which poems are honest, deep and fluently. Poems are usually ballad poetry. Abdülkadir Güler writes the poems with natural- pure Turkish language. Moreover , to take advantages of the topical utterance.After the retired teacher, Abdülkadir Güler had taken up one?s residence on the Söke. He has continued to write poem on the internet and magazines.Keywords:1. Literature of minstrelsy2. Traditional of minstrelsy3. Abdülkadir Güler (Geylani)4. Aydın5. Poem