Analysis of Vasfi's Divan

Vasfı is introduced as a poet who deserves compliment by Tezkire's whose poems are seen oftenly in Nazire bulletins in XVLth century. But the information about his life is much less than required. The subject of our study is the analyses of VasfFs Divan. At this study, Mehmed Çavuşoğhı's "Vasfî Drvân-Tenkidli Basım-, İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Yayınları, İstanbul 1980" is taken basicly. Vasfî's Divan is analysed in four main categories named "religion- mysticism,\ "society", "human'*, "nature" and the elements used in his poems are tried to be analysed where and how these elements are used and in which meaning and in which relations. Before analysed of Divan uf this four main categories, the life and the art of poet, poverb used in Divan, idioms, terses and metres are given as information. General assessment is done at the conclusion.