Abstract
TWO UNNOTICED AND OVERSHADOVED POEMS OF ÂŞIK VEYSEL
There are many works have been done on the life, art, and poetry of Âşık Veysel. In these works, it is possible to find all the details related to Âşık Veysel. Therefore, excessive introductory information about Âşık Veysel has not been given in this study. From the examined works, it is seen that Âşık Veysel has a total of -for now- 180 poems. This study is dedicated to two of Âşık Veysel’s poems, one of which is included in his total poems and the other is not. Attention has been drawn to Âşık Veysel’s trips throughout the country and his two visits to Erzurum in particular. It can be understood that not enough emphasis has been placed on Âşık Veysel’s visits to Erzu-rum, as the poems he wrote as a result of these visits have not been in-cluded in all of Âşık Veysel’s poems for a long time. Both of these poems are related to Erzurum and, although they have had a chance to be published on a small scale, they have remained somewhat overshadowed. The three-stanza poem titled “Erzurum” has not yet been included in book-scale stud-ies where all of Âşık Veysel’s poems are published. The aim of this study is to include this poem in Âşık Veysel’s poems as well. The other poem pre-sented here is a nine-stanza some kind of genre of “dedim dedi” [poem of colloquy], and the other is a three-stanza poem that was most likely recited spontaneously. With this study, it is aimed to shed light on the unknown aspects of Âşık Veysel’s life and works on the 50th anniversary of his death
Keywords
Âşık Veysel, Erzurum, minstrel style, unknown poem