Aksaray Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

Abstract

The eulogies, of which the main topic is the description of the spring, are
called “bahâriyye” (ode to spring). İn odes to spring are the beauty of spring, spring landscapes and flowers
handled in an abstract or concrete way. The first odes to spring are in Persian literature
belonged to Rudaki, the poet of the Samani period, known as “the master of
poets” and “the pioneer of Persian poets”. Rudaki described spring
thoroughly in his four odes to spring are consisting
of twenty-five couplets. Rudaki also mentioned spring in his other poems in his
divan. The odes to spring have been written in the
Persian literature mostly in the forms of eulogy, ghazal and masnavi. Almost
all poets have written odes to spring in the Persian literature. Due to reasons
like the shortness of the spring season and the refreshment of the nature in
the spring, ode to spring has been one of the most popular issues in the
Persian poetry and literature. Persian poets in the spring and spring in terms of
both the humankind have received in terms of the human sense. With the popular Khorasan
style in Persian literature, the subjects of nature and nature reached its
peak. In this article, how the ode
to spring is processed in Persian literature is explained and the first odes to
spring are discussed and translated.