Nazires written to Fuzuli’s ghazal “Var”

Abstract

Mahammad Fuzuli is a prominent representative not only of Azerbaijani literature, but of all Eastern literature in general and his literary legacy has been the center of interest since his lifetime. The poet had reached such a creative peak that every poet who tried to write poem after him benefited from this literary heritage and had written beautiful artistic examples. In this regard the form most commonly used by Fuzuli's contemporaries and successors was takhmises and nazires (imitations). It is known that most commonly addressed form in diwan literature is nazire (imitation). Poets wrote nazires on the works of authors they considered masters and created beautiful examples of this literary form. In writing the nazire, Mahammad Fuzuli’s creativity were most frequently referred to. In the article is studied the ghazal “Var” by Fuzuli and two nazires written to this ghazal by Masihi Tabrizi, representative in Azerbaijani literature of XVI century. Masihi’s two nazires (imitations) “Var” and “Kimi” have been studied comparatively with ghazal 
  by Fuzuli. Similar and different aspects in terms of content between Fuzuli’s ghazals and nazires have been researched. As well as the system such as radif, rhyme and measure have been analyzed in detail.