Hâmî-i Âmidî ve Manzum Mektubu: Arîza-i Manzûme

Abstract

This study focuses on a verse letter dated 1732 written by Hami in the context of Ali Emiri's Diyarbakir poets controversy (Tezkire-i Şuara-yı Amid). This poem in Hami's Divan is a desire written to Cretan Tîbî to be presented to the Ottoman administration. Hami (d. 1747), who lived in the first half of the 18th century, expresses his troubles in his poetry on his return journey from Istanbul to Diyarbakir. And describes the effect of the plague epidemic, which is effective in Anatolian geography, on himself and his friends in a poetic language. Smallpox in Diyarbakır in the same year, the city's invasion of the enemy and the problems of the public are among the issues that the poet touched and complained about. Hami wrote this desire to give him a share of the income of the village of Fare. The poet expresses his events in a modern story setting, in a pathetic, exaggerated language and in a unique style. This poetry is a chat with a total of two hundred and sixty-six couplets. Seventy-eight verses of the poem related to travel were re-read by comparing writing and printed copies. Inter-language translations of couplets are written and written against each couplet. Thus, some reading and writing mistakes in the scientific studies and publications on Hami's Divan were corrected. After a short analysis of poetry, the study was completed by writing the conclusion and bibliography sections. At the end of the study, just the first edition of the manuscript copy, including the title of the poem, was added.