KÜLTÜRK

Öz

Initiated under the leadership of Prof. Dr. M. Fatih Köksal in 2011, the Systematic Classification Project of Poetry Anthologies (MESTAP) has reached a level of maturity that can be considered significant today. The aim of the project is to perform a content analysis of poetry anthologies, compile them in a database, and make them available for researchers. In parallel with its development, two workshops were held in Ankara in 2012 and 2017 in order to ensure unity in the work carried out within the scope of the project. Following these workshops, the 3rd MESTAP Workshop was held at Istanbul Kültür University on June 15, 2023 in order to identify and eliminate the deficiencies seen in the increasing studies. This article, presented as an oral presentation at the relevant workshop and revised for publication, focuses on the explanations section of the MESTAP tables. In the article, common approaches seen in the explanations, limited to graduate theses, have been identified and evaluations have been made about them. As a result, it is stated that in the explanations/notes section not only the titles of the poems should be written, but also a systematic way should be followed in the determination of the poem and the poet. Additionally, it is recommended that the issues related to the shape features of the poems should be included and the possible clues on the poems should be interpreted.