Elements of the eulogy in the divans of the main poets of the 16 th century

In this study, eulogy elements were researched in Divan poems Fuzuli, Baki, Hayali and Muhibbi the main poets of the 16 th century. 16 th century we might consider as the peak of Classical Literature, is a term that the poets performed their art at the highest level art Divan poem won the summit. In the study, we aimed to understand that while 16 th century Divan poets was performing their arts, which elements connected relation, how displayed their skill of poem and oratory and what in ways was proud of these elements which reflected the poets sense of art and imaginary world. In the study, subject was discussed as two sections. In the first section that includes the main issue of our thesis, after the verses which show 16 th century poets' artistic perspective in their Divans poems, first were adapted to prose then were written with modern Turkish language. Then the verses were classified, the subject was tried to explain in this perspective with examples. Besides, the artist's ideal poem portrait was exposed in the light of these eulogy elements. Howewer in the second section, the owerall study was evaluated and created a conclusion part.