Abstract:
The aim of this work is to bring into light Bâlî Çelebi, about whom the information is very limited in resources, and his Divan. To achieve this goal, the life of the poet is tried to be enlightened as much as possible, and the text of the Divan, his only work for the time being, is established and analyzed in frames of its form, content and style. This research can be divided into two main sections: analysis and text of the Divan. In the analysis part, firstly other poets, especially Rumelili Bâlî who, in some resources is confused with Edirneli Bâlî Çelebi, are presented. Afterwards the life, literary personality, literary view and works of Edirneli Bâlî Çelebi who constitutes the main theme of this thesis, are examined. Under the heading of 'Etkiler' (Influences), Bâlî's nazires and the poems of the poets for whom he wrote nazires are analyzed.As a result of this former part of the analysis part, it is found out that Bâlî Çelebi lived in the 16th century, during the era of Selim the first and Murad the third. He worked as a kethüda for Kemal Paşa-zâde, one of the Sheik ul-Islams of the era. After serving for a sheik of a tariqa for thirty five years he started writing poetry on the request of this sheik, and he wrote his Divan when he was mütevelli of Edirne Darülhadisi. Although on the prose dibace of the Divan the poet mentioned that he had four works except his Divan, none of them exists today.In the latter part of the analysis, The Divan of Bâlî Çelebi is examined in terms of the characteristics of its form, such as versification, meter, rhyme, and redif. Moreover, the religious, historical, mythological and social elements of the Divan, in other words its content, is examined. Lastly, in the section of stile, the characteristics of its language, proverbs, idioms and its various figures of speech are studied. Furthermore, sample verses for each of these elements are given. In the conclusion part, information provided from these analyses are evaluated. After describing the copies and the methods for establishing of the text, the text of Bâli Çelebi's Divan is given. At the end of this work, an index for analysis part as well as the index for proper nouns, proverbs and phrases of The Divan of Bâlî Çelebi are appended.
