The concept of love, which sometimes expresses romantic or sexual love, and sometimes different types of love such as divine love or parental love, has different dimensions. Undoubtedly, with its different meanings, love is one of the most studied themes in the field of literature from past to present. Fuzûlî and Shakespeare, who left their mark on the literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and became classics, focused heavily on the concept of love in their poems in the form of ghazals and sonnets. While expressing the sufferings of superfluous love and the pessimistic feelings caused by not being able to reach the lover in his ghazals, Shakespeare also gives a place to the negativities such as the lover's rejection, forgetting or cheating on the lover in his sonnets. Despite living in the same period, these poets, who wrote in different geographical regions such as the Middle East and Western Europe, emphasize the different dimensions of love while processing the concept of love. In this study, the ghazals in the Turkish Divan of Fuzûlî, one of the most central figures of Classical Turkish literature, and the main sonnet samples of Shakespeare, one of the most classical literary figures of Renaissance English literature, will be examined and the similarities and differences in the works of the two poets will be compared based on the concept of love.

Fuzûlî, Turkish Collective Poems, ghazal, Shakespeare, sonnets, love.