A thematic comparison of metaphysical poetry and sufi literature

The present thesis is a research on the 17th century English Metaphysical poetry, which is compared to the Turkish Sufi literature that appeared in Anatolia in the 12th century starting with Ahmed Yesevi.Poems by John Donne and George Herbert representing Metaphysical poetry and Ahmed Yesevi and Yunus Emre in Sufi literature are explained with their general thematic aspects. The love of God, death, and unity of entity (Vahdet-i Vücud) are main topics emphasized in poems, and relation to which the similarities and differences are stated in the comparative part of the thesis.