SEXUAL METAPHORS IN LOVE MASNAWIS / A K MESNEV LER NDE C NSELL K MAZMUNLARI

The most essential subject of masnawis in which the Diwan poets exposesuccessfully their narrative, imaginative and descriptive ability is love. In thesewritings beside of love, the natural aspect of human being that is the sexuality isalso explained. Sexuality is described and mentioned sometimes apparently andsometimes metaphorically. In this paper, we will try to demonstrate how and bymeans of which metaphors the sexuality is employed.