An ecocrıtıcal approach to the poems of dadaloğlu

Although ecocritical theory, which poses a nature-based criticism on the literary texts not an anthropocentric criticism, has become popular after 1990s in Europe, it is a theory that has just been started to be known in Turkey. Ecocritical theory, which reacts to the capitalist system that considers that human and nature are separate from each other in terms of the fact that the human is an authorized-superior being that can exploit the nature however he likes and which argues that human and nature are integrated, suggests that human-nature relations are inevitably reflected in the literature works. Literary genres like novels, tales and poems in the New Turkish Literature have started to be analyzed recently in this field in our country. However, such analyses are scarcely any in the folk literature. In this study, the elements related to nature in the poems of Dadaloğlu, who is one of the milestones in the Turkish Minstrel tradition and who is the sonorous of Avşar Yörük Turkmens, and his perspective towards the nature are analyzed in a ecocritical way.