Comparison of the theme of national romanticism in the poems of Magzhan Zhumabayev with the works of Turkish poets
Authors:   Khoja AkhmetYassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Zhiyenbayev Ye. , Semiz K. ,   Khoja AkhmetYassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University
Published: April 2022

Studies of M.Zhumabayev’s creativity are carried out in various fields of science. It is known that in recent years “Magzhan tanu” as a separate branch of science has achieved a lot and began to take shape. The complexity of M.Zhumabayev’s life and the versatility of his heritage attracted the attention of foreign scientists. That is, the work of the poet is not limited to poetry. The need for a systematic and comprehensive study of philosophical and historical sources and pedagogical views in his works can be considered the imperative of the times. M.Zhumabayev, one of the prominent representatives of Kazakh literature, is one of the poets who sang the theme of Turkism in his poetry at the beginning of the 20th century, and is a unique figure for the Turkic peoples. In his poems, expressing his views and attitude towards society, it is stated that “the name of the nation is Turkic, the name of the homeland is Turan.” Obviously, the word “Türik” does not refer to one people in the works of this poet. He called the entire Turkic world to unity and solidarity, and for the rest of his life longed for the independence of the Kazakh people. In addition to depicting inner experiences, his poems widely discuss social issues written in the spirit of critical realism. It is known that the struggle for national liberation and ideological unity of the Turkic peoples of the early twentieth century was reflected in the poetry of M.Zhumabayev. Thanks to this feature, the name of M.Zhumabayev is one of the first to be mentioned when talking about Kazakh literature in Turkey, which is the leading country of the Turkic world. Although M.Zhumabayev did not travel to Turkey, his literary personality and views are widely known in Anatolia. In this context, the analysis of his poetic works by the method of analyzing the texts of Turkish literary critics and comparing the Turkic ideology of the poet with the works of poets who support the Turkic movement in Turkey shows the relevance of our topic. If we look at the principles of M.Zhumabayev and the poets of the national period of Anatolian literature, we will see that their subject matter is close, and their goals are the same. In this regard, the purpose of our study is to compare the poems of M.Zhumabayev with the works of poets who sang the Turkish direction in terms of national romanticism. In addition, the results of the study were differentiated on the basis of the methods of complex, systematic, comparative, objective-analytical, historical-systematic analysis, generalization, and generalization inherent in the science of literary criticism. The collected data were compared by topic. The main methodological and theoretical basis of our research is the enrichment of the conclusions of domestic and Turkish literary criticism, the nature of poetry, epic genres, epics, genre-stylistic, artistic and aesthetic features of poems.