ABSTRACT
The introductory part that some Ottoman poets added to the beginning of their divan is called 'dibace.' In dibace, besides why and how divans are arranged, it has an essential place for literature researchers in terms of the poets' views on the art of poetry and their poems. When the approximately 40 Turkish divan dibacees (now available) are compared, it can be said that the poets show commonality in many ways, except the conditions of the period in which they lived. In this study, the dibaces written for their Turkish divans by two poets who lived in different geographical parts during the same century and were aware of eachother; Fuzûlî and Taşlıcalı Yahyâ, were compared in terms of form and content.