*ARTISTIC FUNCTION OF THE FIGURES IN YASAWI'S HIKMETS

Abstract

In the article, the collection of Yasawi's hikmets is taken as the object of analysis from an artistic and figurative point of view. The significance of hikmets as a genre of poetry will be examined and its patterns of figures will be identified. The important function of poetic repetition, as a rhetorical device for introducing concepts such as moral properties, human duty, morality, and spiritual purity, will be explored.

Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, the great representative of Sufi teaching, skillfully harmonized ancient Turkic poetry with Eastern Arabic and Persian poetry and created the best poetic pattern in the Turkic world. Mixing several genres of oriental poetry with the long-established tradition of Turkic poetry and the formation of the hikmet genre is in itself a great achievement, and the desire to deepen the substantive weight of this genre shows a new spiritual height. Poetic repetition plays an im- portant role as an artistic approach to revealing content.

The meaning and content of Yasawi's hikmets and their spiritual and cogni- tive significance have become the subject of a number of studies. It was comprehen- sively examined from the point of view of language, literature and ethnography. The repetition patterns used by the author of hikmet and their ideological and artistic function also require special study. Since Yasawi is not only a great exponent of spir- itual teachings, but also a poet immersed in traditional poetry, his hikmets are also distinguished by their artistry. The article identifies the types of poetic repetition used by the poet, such as initial (anaphora) and final (epiphora) repetition, and draws conclusions based on this.