Kastamonu sourced poetry journal II

Poetry journals are like a hidden treasure for our literary history. It is responsibility to bring this treasure to light. In this context poetry magazine, which is thought to have been organized in Kastamonu end of the century 19th and the beginning 20th century, has been examined and brought to our literature history. 110 poems belonging to were identified in the journal. In 4 poems, pseudonyms could not be determined. While 29 poems were published for the first time with this study, versions of 85 poems were created. Tha fact that most of the identified poems belong to Kastamonu poets has helped us to contribute to the biography of Kastamonu minstrels. The poetry journal which was transferred to the Latin alphabet and was examined is in Prof. Dr. Eyüp Akman's personal archive. The study consist of six main titles: "Introduction", "Introduction of the Journal", "Analysis of the Journal", "Text", "Conclusion" and "Dictionary". In the Appendices section at the end of the stud exists the MESTAP table, the poetry index, the poet's index and the facsimile of the journal are included. Thus, researchers who want to benefit from the journal are facilitated. In the introduction part of the thesis, Kastamonu is considered as a "cultural center" and as a result of this centralized structure, the situation of the 19th century minstrel literature in the city is mentioned. Then, general information about the journals was given and this section was concluded. In the second part, the poetry journal, which is the subject of the study, is introduced. In the third chapter, the journal was examined in detail, after the short life stories of the poets in the journal were given, various expressions and concepts in the poems were explained with examples. In the fourth chapter, the poems were transferred to today's Turkish. No comparative method has been followed here. Therefore, the edition critique of the poems in the journal has not been made. Poems that were previously published in divans or in different sources are indicated with footnotes. The poem, which does not have any explanation on it, means that it is published for the first time in this study. In the fifth chapter of the study, the results and determinations are given. The study was concluded with the sixth and last chapter, the dictionary chapter. Here, the explanations of the words in the poems that are thought to be difficult for the reader are given.