In all civilizations, oral literature and folklore source or influence written literature. Therefore, it benefits from oral tradition and folklore products in written literature. For this reason, it is inevitable that the literary and artistic texts of a cultural center include some elements of the cultural values of the people who make up that community. Because those who create works of literature and art are steeped in the culture of the society they represent. Divan poetry has been criticized for centuries for addressing a high class and not addressing the public, and being far from folk culture. However, although it is said that this poetry tradition does not reflect social life, it is not a tradition far from social life. Representatives of this tradition, like other poets, talked about transition periods in their texts by making use of folk culture elements, people's customs and traditions, and people's proverbs and idioms. Within the framework of these periods, many beliefs, customs, traditions, ceremonies, rituals, religious and magical processes are grouped together and these periods are managed in accordance with the expectations and patterns of the culture to which they are affiliated. Their purpose is to determine the person's new situation, to bless and celebrate it, and at the same time to protect the person from the dangers that are believed to intensify at this time. In this context, the aim of our study is to examine the issues of birth, marriage and death, which are the three main transition periods of human life, in the 19th century. The aim is to unearth its traces in the 19th century divan poetry.

Divan poetry, folk culture, transition periods, 19th century.