Hasan GÜLTEKİN

Keywords: Divan literature,17th century,Veysî,social criticism,qa sida,justice,communal degeneration

Abstract

Famous prose writer of the 17th century Veysi had wrote this poem in the form of the qasida in which individual and institutional aspects of the pe riod to life has brought harsh criticism. 17th century poets and other writ ers critical of the society about the situation similar to the dose of this crit icism is sometimes very high. Veysi wants to show to sultan weaknesses in the management states, government persecution of the people and the arbitrary behavior of the public disquiet indicate whether the individual tasks are considered critical to the institutions and managers. Justice and the rule of law to be passed into the hands of the tyrant's fear has turned into concern, but the state in which to recover from the bad situation is fairly hopeful about the future of a monarch has said