Âşık Gufrani
Âşık Gufrani
Durmuş Ali, was born in 1864 in the village of Başkışla, which is connected to the central district of Karaman. He used the pen name Gufranî in his poems. Âşık Gufranî began writing poetry when he was around fifteen years old. It is observed that he used both syllabic meter and aruz meter in his poems, and he also played the saz (a traditional musical instrument).
Âşık Gufranî was recognized and sought after among the saz poets of his time. He engaged in poetic duels with renowned saz poets such as Silleli Figanî and Konyalı Cevrî at Sulu Kahve, a popular gathering place for minstrels in Konya. The origin of Gufranî's pen name is unknown, but there are two different stories about the inspiration behind it. In one story, it is said that during a snowy night in 1879, when everything was covered in a bright layer of snow under the moonlight, Durmuş Ali, mistaking it for morning due to the illuminated room, hurriedly dressed up and went to school. When he arrived at the school, he saw three scholars sitting in place of his teacher, one telling the other, "Fill it up, give it." The other replied, "Don't fill it too much, he can't handle it." Then, one of the scholars turned to Durmuş Ali and said, "Take it, my child, for the sake of the Creator," offering him a filled cup. With manners, Durmuş Ali accepted the cup, turned slightly to drink from it, and when he turned back to return the empty cup, he couldn't see anyone in the square. From that day on, he started reciting poems in meter.
Among the limited number of poems by Gufranî, there is a significant presence of epics. This indicates that he primarily composed poems in this genre. Namdar Rahmi Bey mentioned that the poet earned a living by reciting epics and selling printed copies of them.
One of his notable epics is the 64-line "Yaşnâme," which is in the form of a taunting poem. He also composed the Marriage Epic, the Epic of Birds' Language, the Epic of Lodos and Poyraz, the Epic of the Moon and the Sun, and the Epic of Proverbs, which secured his place among the epic poets of our literature. Gufranî frequently incorporated proverbs, idioms, and local expressions into his poems. Although there are a few koşma (a form of Turkish folk poetry) and semai (a form of Turkish classical poetry) poems attributed to Gufranî, his poems in syllabic meter are considered more successful.
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