Comparison Of Epizot And Motifs In Cemşîd ü Hurşid Mesnevi With Turkish Folk Story AndFairy Tales

Folk tales and tales that have survived through oralexpression contain many cultural elements synthesized infolk imagination. It is possible to follow the traces of thesecultural elements not only in folk literature texts but alsoin classical and modern Turkish literature products Inevery literary tradition, the cultural accumulation, socialbelief system and lifestyle carried by previous narrativesare assimilated by the artist and reflected by his uniqueperspective Especially in mesnevi, which is one of the verseforms of classical Turkish literature based on narration, theeffects of cultural heritage elements such as beliefs, mythsand legends of ancient narratives are felt intensely. Whileour poets recognize and use the Mesnevi form throughIranian literature, they succeed in assimilating this formwith themselves. Ahmedî's 4798 couplets Cemşîd ü Hurşîd mesnevi hasan important place in our literature in terms of narrationtechnique. The subject of our study is to examine thismesnevi, which is a compilation work, in terms of episodesand motifs, and to determine the similarities anddifferences with traditional narrative types such asTurkish fairy tales and folk talesIn this article, folk talessuch as Dede Korkut Stories, Elif ile Mahmut, Tahir ileZühre, Raznihan ile Mahfiruze, Ferhad ile Şirin and manytales such as Güneş Kızı, Kırk Boy, Altın are studied in thecontext of repetitive episodes and motifs in terms of form and function in Cemşîd ü Hurşîd. In addition, in order toreveal the relations between the texts, the narratives in theevent flow of the mesnevi were evaluated over thesimilarities they contain with these folk narrative types,especially in the world of fiction, extraordinary andstructural elements..