EPİC MOTİFS İN OUR EPİC POETRY OF XIII-XIV CENTURİES

Abstract

The article discusses the influence of folk dastans on the development of Azerbaijani epic poetry of XIII-XIV centuries. It is shown that XIII-XIV centuries attract attention as a special stage in the development of Azerbaijani literature. During this period, a number of valuable examples of our epic poetry were created. Those works are mainly in the poem genre. These poems were written in two languages, namely Azerbaijani and Persian. In some of those poems it is noticable the influence of folklore, especially dastans to one or another degree. The authors of the poems successfully used the plots, individual episodes, events, images, form-structural elements, ideas, etc. of dastans while writing their works. Among those works "Dastan-i-Ahmed Harami" (author is unknown), "Varga and Gulshah" by Yusif Maddah, "Mehri and Vafa" by Isa, "Mehr and Mushtari" by Assar Tabrizi and etc. poems can be shown. The epic motifs in the mentioned poems are analyzed in the article.