Nüzhet Erman’in Şemşîr-İ Şerîatin Solgun Gülleri̇ne Dai̇r Bi̇r Şi̇i̇ri̇: Ağulu Çi̇çekler

Abstract

Nuzhet Erman, one of the bureaucratic poets of the Republic of Turkey, included many historical events and personalities along with Anatolia culture in his poems. Although the poet has many poems in this style, his book entitled Her Gun Yeni Dogarız (Everyday We Are New Born), in which he collected his poems, is remarkable in terms of his handling of historical people and events in both a narrative and a critical form. In this article, such a poem by Nuzhet Erman called Agulu Cicekler (Poisonous flowers) is discussed. Agulu Cicekler was divided into three parts by the poet himself, and each section was given the name of the executed historical figure as a subtitle. The first part of the poem has the subtitle Hurufi and deals with an unidentified Hurufi person who was executed in Edirne during the reign of Fatih Sultan Mehmed. Although this person is mentioned as Fazıl Tebrizi in Agulu Cicekler, it is understood that this information is not correct. The second part of the poem presents a small section of the teacher/professor of Sahn-ı Seman, Mullah Lutfi, and it is titled Tokatlı Molla Lutfi (Mullah Lutfi from Tokat). The third and last part is the section called Seyh Oglan, which refers to the execution of Sheikh İsmail-i Masuki from Bayrami-Melami. In this article, this mentioned poem of Nuzhet Erman was analyzed only in terms of the extent to which the events and people mentioned in the poem are compatible with the historical framework; apart from this, no language, content, style, and form analysis has been made related to the poem.