Commercial Metaphors in Yunus Emre’s Poetry
Yunus Emre’de Ticaret İle İlgili Metaforlar

Author : Funda TOPRAK
Number of pages : 197-204

Abstract

Yunus Emre, one of those poets that used the Turkish Language on the simplest and the most fluid way, had adorned his rich poetry world with images and metaphors. His poems can be considered two, or  perhaps, three-stage. He could explain the same thought, through his one beyit/verse, to the different readers. On this way, he had used methapors. As known, the methapor is to use analogy when we want to liken or compare any sense or thought with something else. In term of method, beyond a simple likening, it explains the relations between “alike, “similar” and “context” by the way of “target” and “domain”. Yunus Emre has depp thoughts which he explaine them by the simple methapors. These simple methapors form the the exterior face of his poetry, meanwhile, there are a deep and systematic perception of the Sufism. The methapor world in Yunus’s poetry is so rich that we can’t find any beyit/verse without methapor. Thus, to study his poems in term of all methapors he used, is another wide subject. In this study, we deal with the commercial methapors in his Diwan and we concentrate on the reasons of his use those methapors. It can be said that Yunus Emre, as a sûfî poet,  had chosen for himself the Holy Koran, in term of method. Because Allah, adress in the Koran to his all subjects with the simple methapors in order to be understood. For example, He denots “the eden” by “garden; “the hell” by “fire” and “the sinners” by “who sold the hereafter”. There are also in the Koran many methapors about commerce. Thus, Yunus Emre was influenced by the Koran which he took it as his guide and, almost, used the same methapors in his poetry. Indeed, his poems, besides this similarity in term of method, are only to chant teh verses of Allah by his private way, adding poetic style. He uses all of methapores successfully and in a uniqe style when he cites a lot of methapores such as seller, store, market, the merchant who bankrupted; also when he compares eden with hell, hereafter with this world and sin with divine reward.

Keywords

Yunus Emre, Metaphor, Commercial Metaphors

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