Comparative analysis of the nazaries written by Mihri Hâtun to Necati Bey

A nazire is when a poet writes a poem that is similar in meter, rhyme, rhyme scheme, and meaning to a poem by a poet they admire. Nazires are written for many reasons, such as self-improvement, asserting superiority, competition, and making a name for oneself. In the 15th century, one of the great names in Ottoman divan literature, known as the Khusraw of Rum, was Necâtî Bey. In a period when Persian was increasingly popular, his ability to use simple, clear Turkish with proverbs, idioms, and sayings was one of the features that brought him to the forefront of his time. His poems were very popular and nazires were written to many of them in every period. Mihrî Hatun, on the other hand, was the first female poet to have a divan, who lived in the same period as Necâtî Bey. Her use of natural, sincere Turkish in her poems and her uninhibited expression of her feelings set her apart from other female poets. She took the great poet of the time, Necâtî Bey, as an example and sent him her poems. Mihrî Hatun, who carried the desire to reach Necâtî Bey in her poems, wrote many nazires to Necâtî's works in this direction. This study aims to examine the literary interaction between Mihrî Hatun and Necâtî Bey in the context of nazires. After discussing the concept of nazire and the subject of nazire in Turkish literature, information is given about the lives of both poets and their places in the literary world. Later, Necâtî Bey's ghazals in the main sources and Mihrî Hatun's nazires written to these ghazals were analyzed with a comparative method. After the ghazals and nazires identified as a result of the comparison of the two poets' divans were briefly analyzed, nazire murabba and tahmis were included. In the comprehensive analyses made, the meaning, structure, and style features of the poems were examined in detail, and how the poets influenced each other and how these interactions took place in different forms such as quotation, imitation, reference, and competition were revealed.