The role and description of womern in the poetry of Aşik Elesger

The position of the woman, who constitues one half of society and who has a significant influence on the formation and shaping of the other half, appears in and is either ridiculed or praised throughout every era of history and in every society. For this reason, woman have been frequently discussedin literary Works, which aesthetically present social events. Throughout the history of literature, the profile of Turkish woman within Turkish society has been drawn from the language of minstrels and bards, who have served as the spokesmen of the people since ancient times. Likewise, the position of woman in society has also changed hand in hand with Turkish peoples shift in living conditions. The woman, who is represented as a silhouette in the World of poets imagination, has taken on a sense of mystique between the passion of the poet and his pen, and the inaccessible, allthe while being exaggerated with various analogies. Given the conditions of the period in question, the life of the Turkic woman has been long shaped between thick walls and tulle curtains. However, within the developing and diversifying of the societl structure, rural peasants have managed to maintain the purity of their own culture and lifestyle. The woman in the poems of Âşık Elesger, who is one of the most important representatives of Azebaijani literature and the Turkish bardic or minstrel tradition, includes girls carrying jugs water and picking flowers in the mountains, and represent love, longing and couragefelt and faced by Turkish woman. In essence, not only does Elesger's poetry contain traces of Turkish traditions and customs, it also shows the place and position of Turkish woman within those traditions as well.