METAPHORICAL ELEMENTS USED IN THE CONCEPTS ABOUT LOVE AND BELOVED IN DIVANU LUGATI'TTURK

Abstract

Culture has an important place in the creation and analysis of metaphors. The determination of the metaphors created in the works of the past or the fact that a created metaphor can be analyzed today is an important indicator of integrity in cultural continuity. In our study, it has been determined that love and lover have been exalted and carried to superhuman dimensions with the metaphors created in the poems written about love and lover, which is our subject in the work called Divanu Lugati't-Turk (DLT). Love and difficulties related to the beloved are associated with mountains, the pain of love, tears, liver wounds, and love is metaphorized as a trap. The painful side of love has been described as the healing role of the lover, love as magic, and the lover as a magician. These metaphorical expressions created in poems are at a level that can easily be found in our today's culture and thought world. Considering the effect of cultural memory on both the creation and analysis of the metaphor, it shows that the cognitive codes of Turks on love and lover have survived until today without changing.