In general in his all poems and in a more particular base in Hayriyye, he has insisted on the matters to be paid attention in social and personal life and he has given recommendations about the behaviour types necessary for being both a better society and rightmost individuals. Nabi has been a willing educator by the philosophical and sagacious subjects he instilled in his poems. In this sense, the role of art and artwork on training of society is to be handled in the context of Classical Turkish Literature and within the sample of Nabis mathnawi named Hayriyye.
Although it has been subject to various criticisms and accepted as inaccurate by large masses nowadays, social utility principal is still one of the most important subject matters. The problem about the function and objective of artwork has been an important issue being discussed since the existence of it. Keywords: education training poetry nasihatname Nabi Hayriyye In this study, it is aimed to present the role of art works within the process of education and training by using couplets from Nabi's Hayriyye and other poems. He wrote a mathnawi called "Hayriyye" aiming at telling certain truths having both religional and universal aspects. An important representative of this kind is Nabi who lived in 17th century. Especially in Turkish Classical Poetry a special kind of poem named "Nashat-nme" can be seemed in this term. At that manner, poetry has a special character in training process. One of this aspects is "social utility" which refers to training and education of society. Training through poetry within the sample of Nabis Hayriyyeįettah Kuzua * aArdahan University, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Ardahan 75000, TURKEYĪrt works have more aspects than aesthetic pleasures within their contexts. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 9 (2010) 10301035