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a flower similar to an eye (daffodil, nergis) blossoms on the place
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of his corpse and this flower gazes all the beauties with adoration.

So how does this death-blossomed flower bloom in Divan

Poetry? Here are two “beyits” (Divan-style couplets) with the

motif of nergis from Fuzulî, an Ottoman-Azerbaijani Divan poet:

“Hayâl-i mahz sanıp kâ’inâtı nergis-i mest

Kılardı cehl ile nefy-i hakâyik-i eşyâ”

“The drunk nergis took the universe for a pure dream and

it would drift apart from reality”

The first line gives a meaning as: “The bleary (Nergis-like) eyes

of the lover, would assume the universe as a clear, pure dream
that looks real to itself” The second line completes the unfinished

sentence and says “With this dreamy ignorance, it (nergis-i mest)

detracted everything real and moved them away from itself.”

The reality in question here is spirituality and the after-
life. In Divan tradition and Sufism, a sect of Islam that

has been followed by many Divan poets, the true reality.

is the afterlife and spiritual affairs, instead of the world one

lives in. The world is a temporary illusion and one should
work for the afterlife and seek to be a better being spiritually.

Esat Kalyon

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