Jambıl’ın “Akın Boldım” Adlı Şiiri Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Journal Title: Türk Dünyası Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi - Year 2019, Vol 2, Issue 48

Abstract

Jambyl, who is regarded as the greatest representative of Kazakh oral literature, lived in the time period between 1846-1945. He was appreciated and dignified by Suyunbai, the prominent poet of Zhetysu. After spending a year with Suyunbai, he produced successful art pieces in the aytys, jir and tolgav genres of Kazakh folk poetry. Jambyl, who achieved his real fame with his poemsin aytis genre, is also a very successful epic singer. He sang various epics such as Köroğlu, Girls Jibek, Oraq Mamay, Yedige and Shora Batir etc. with his dombyra by adding his own style; and presented them to public. The works of Jambyl are like a cultural encyclopedia of Kazakh people. Many of the historical and social events that Kazakh people experienced during the time period when the poet lived can be followed from the poems of the poet. Again, his poems contain a lot of information about the Kazakh daily life and social lives. The poem Aqyn Boldım by Jambyl ("I became a poet") have the characteristics of age epic genre. As is known, the genre age epic is one of poetry types of minstrel literature, and in this kind of poems, the poetsinger evaluates every phase of human life gradually in parallel with their feelings, thoughts and experiences. Age epics that are among the common elements of the Turkish world literature are one of the poetry types reflecting the traditional folk knowledge that the public has obtained for ages and the common cultural memory of the society. In this study, a general information about the concept of age epic and the life of Jambyl was provided, and the poem Aqyn Boldım, which features as an age epic, was introduced to the world of literature and Jambyl's poetry world was tried to be studied through this work.

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Soner Sağlam

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  • EP ID EP669583
  • DOI 10.24155/tdk.2019.116
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Soner Sağlam (2019). Jambıl’ın “Akın Boldım” Adlı Şiiri Üzerine Bir İnceleme. Türk Dünyası Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi, 2(48), 181-212. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-669583