Precious stones and mines in the divans of female poets of Classical Turkish Literature

Classical Turkish literature; It is a traditional literature in which themes, motifs and symbols are used. The tradition in question, which cannot remain indifferent to beauties and beauties, has not remained indifferent to precious stones, which attract attention with both their preciousness and beauty. When it comes to precious stones and mines, agate, gold, copper, crystal, ore, diamond, silver, pearl, amber, garnet, coral, amber, ruby, emerald, emerald, etc. comes to mind. In the study, the reflections of precious stones and mines in the divans of the female poets of Classical Turkish literature were examined. In this context, Mihrî Hatun from the 15th century poets, Emetullah Hanım from the 17th century, Fıtnat Hanım from the 18th century, Âdile Sultan, Ayşe Teymûrî, Çeşm-i Âfet, Gülperî Hanım, Leylâ Hanım, Hatice Nakiyye Hanım, Sırrî Râhile Hanım from the 19th century poets., Şeref Hanım and Tevhîde Hanım divans were discussed. It has been observed that the concept of "precious stones" and "mines" occupies a wide place when studying the divans of women poets. First of all, the divans of the mentioned poets were scanned, general information about the precious stones and mines listed alphabetically was given, and how and in what ways they were used in the poems were presented on the basis of the couplets determined. In the divans of women poets, the elements of imagination shaped around precious stones and mines were tried to be shown by making use of the expressive power of literary arts such as simile, metaphor, allusion, hüsn-i ta'lil, leff ü neşr.