THE POETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PROVERBS AND SAYINGS IN THE EPIC «THE BOOK OF DEDE GORGUD»

Abstract

In this article the poetic characteristics of proverbs and sayings in the epic “The Book of Dede Gorgud” are studied systematically. The main goal of the study is to characterize these folklore units not only as expressions with didactic content, but also as poetic texts with high artistic and aesthetic value. In the study the artistic characteristics of proverbs and sayings, such as rhythmic-melodicity, imagery, metaphoricity, parallelism, repetition and syntactic structure are analyzed, the ways in which they are integrated into the overall poetics of the epic are shown.
In the article these idioms reflect the Turkic national worldview, ethical values and aesthetic thinking, as well as play an important functional role in the ideological and artistic structure of the epic are based on. As a result, it is determined that the proverbs and sayings in the epic “The Book of Dede Gorgud” serve as a connecting bridge between folklore and written literature and is one of the important examples of the Turkic poetic thought tradition.