FOLKLORE MOTIFS IN KH.R.ULUTURK’S POETRY

Abstract

Khalil Rza Uluturk, who has always held high the history, culture, national and spiritual values of the people has been continuously engaged in the collection, research and publication of our folklore, carried out a number of researches on our folklore heritage. As a continuation of the work of folklore collecting, the poet also enriched his poetry with the initial ideas, thinking system, mythological worldview, traditions, ethnography of the ethnos, which originated from folk art. The poet’s lyrics include various genres of Azerbaijani folk poetry such as quatrains, lullabies, different forms of ashiq poem. The author brought these samples of folklore to poetry, as it were, in a stylistic approach and also created the literary form of the mentioned texts. The attachment of
Kh.R.Uluturk’s poetry to folklore sources is a rich experience in portraying heroes of epics, fairy tales, referring to various fairy tales, narration motifs, poetic meaning of mythical-legendary images and using folklore language opportunities.