DIVAN POETRY-CONK (JUNK) RELATIONSHIP AND "CONK" RHYMING GHAZELS

Abstract

Poetry collections (mecmuas) and conks a re among the primary resources of literary history. However, it is hard to say that academic works on these are sufficient both in quality and quantity. Although the number of the works on poetry mecmuas has increased in recent years, the ones on conks are very few. In this study, first, the concept of conk is defined as a literary term. Secondly, the portion of the divan, folk and the mystical poets took place in conks, and which of these poets are high in number are searched in this paper. Based on this data, it will be concluded that the common definition of conks are not identical with the one that came out from this work. Thirdly, some remarks will be added on the poets mostly used in the conks. Finally, by giving sample texts, the term of conk will be redefined, in other words what the conk really is will be answered according the main sources of Turkish literary history such as diwans, tezkeres and poetry mecmuas in here. In addition to this, some evaluations will also be made. Furthermore, the pile of the gazels with 'redif of conk' (etter or syllable added to a complete rhyme) will be given at the end. The basic materials - conks-used for writing the 'divan poetry in the conks' part of this work, are compiled of 63 ones from my personal library and the 480 classifed ones out of 571 conks placed in official website of www.yazmalar.gov.tr.