“SEN VE BEN”: ON YEDİNCİ YÜZYIL BAŞI İNGİLİZ ŞİİRİ VE ON ÜÇÜNCÜ YÜZYIL ANADOLU TASAVVUF ŞİİRİNDE AŞK İLE BİRLİK DÜŞÜNCESİ

Year 2024, Issue: 61, 247 - 256, 22.03.2024

Meltem Can

https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1414275

Abstract

On yedinci yüzyıl başı İngiliz şiiri ile on üçüncü yüzyıl Anadolu Tasavvuf şiiri, farklı kültürlere ve dönemlere ait olsalar da, aşk aracılığıyla maddi varoluşun ötesine geçme arayışlarında birleşirler. Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert, Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, Yunus Emre ve Hacı Bektaş Veli'nin dizelerinde aşk, bireyleri dünyevi yaşamdan ve sosyo-politik çatışmalardan özgürleştiren ve ilahi olanla bütünleşmiş yüksek bir bilince götüren manevi bir uyanış aracı olarak karşımıza çıkar. Dolayısıyla, bu makale Donne'ın “Veda: Yas Tutmak Yasak,” Rumi'nin “Sen ve Ben”, Spenser'ın “Tanrısal Aşk Onuruna İlahi” Emre'nin “Âşıklar Ölmez”, Herbert’in “Aşk III,” ve Veli’nin "Erenler Demi" şiirlerini Platon'un Birlik düşüncesi ve tasavvuftaki vahdet-i vücud öğretisi ışığında ele alacak ve bu şiirlerin aşkı, bireylerin dünyevi varlıklarının ötesine geçip sevgiliyle, yani tanrıyla Bir olmalarını sağlayan dönüştürücü bir güç olarak tasvir ettiğini öne sürecektir.

Keywords

John Donne, Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, Yunus Emre, Hacı Bektaş Veli

“YOU AND I”: THE IDEA OF ONENESS WITH LOVE IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH POETRY AND THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ANATOLIAN SUFI POETRY

Abstract

Early seventeenth-century English verse and thirteenth-century Anatolian Sufi poetry, though from different cultures and eras, converge in their exploration of going beyond material existence through love. In the verses of Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert, Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Yunus Emre and Haji Bektash Veli, love emerges as a medium for spiritual awakening that liberates individuals from mundane life and socio-political conflicts and leads to an elevated consciousness merged with the divine. Thus, this article will analyse Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” Rumi’s “You and I,” Spenser’s “An Hymne in Honour of Heavenly Love,” Emre’s “Lovers Die Not,” Herbert’s “Love III,” and Veli’s “The Transcendence of Saints” in light of Plato's idea of Oneness and the Sufi doctrine of wahdat-i wujud and suggest that these poems reveal love as a transformative power enabling individuals to transcend their worldly existence and become One with the beloved, namely the divine.

Keywords

John Donne, Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Yunus Emre, Haji Bektash Veli

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