BİTLİSLİ HALK ŞAİRİ DEMİRCİ NAİM VE ŞİİRLERİ ÜZERİNE DEĞERLENDİRMELER
EVALUATIONS ON THE FOLK POET FROM BITLIS DEMIRCI NAIM AND HIS POEMS

Summary/Abstract: Bitlis, which hosted various civilizations in different periods of history, has been a place where written culture prevailed at a certain level. The city has maintained its importance for centuries and hosted different civilizations. From this perspective, many poets, historians, politician and literary figures were raised in Bitlis. Mahmut Naim Şerefhanoğlu, a member of the Şerefhanoğulları family, one of the important families of the city, was born in Bitlis in 1913. The folk poet, known under the pseudonym Demirci Naim, is among the city's important poets of the 20th century. Some of the poems of the poet, who died in his hometown Bitlis on April 15, 1971, were published by his son Servet Şerefhanoğlu under the title "Sparks from the Poet Demirci Naim". In this study, the poet's life and literary personality are analyzed in terms of both form and content with examples from his poems. The poet wrote poems in both aruz and syllabic meter. However, in our study, only the poems he wrote in syllabic meter were taken into consideration and various evaluations were made. When the characteristics of Demirci Naim were examined in terms of minstrelsy traditions, it was concluded that he should be accepted as a folk poet.

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