HEBBEL, PETZOLD VE MEYER'İN ŞİİRLERİNDE ÇEŞME.

Fountain, the source of which is water, has always been a very important phenomenon for human beings. For this reason, the fountain or well appears in literary works as a subject, motif, or symbol. It is very common in this genre to make use of the semantic dimension of the fountain, which is important in Western poetry in terms of reminding the origin of existence and pointing out the balanced relationship between life and death. So much so that the fountain motif took place in the works of authors such as Novalis, Ludwig Tieck, and Eduard Mörike. In this context, in this study, examples from the poems of Austrian Alfons Maria Petzold, German Friedrich Hebbels and Swiss Conrad Ferdinand Meyer are presented. The fountains in their poems were examined with their symbolic meanings and motifs within the scope of the explanations given. As a result, it has been revealed that this motif is included in the common cultural memory of the German-speaking countries in the analyzed poems and that it has been an important narrative tool since the oral literature tradition in explaining the factors that make up the culture. At this point, the fountain has assumed a cross-border function with the connotations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]