What facts are there about Kahlil Gibran?

Answer 1

The most interesting fact about Kahlil Gibran is how frantic were the ideas he expressed in his poems.Being a true and traditional Arabic mind, the bizareness of his verses can be fully expressed by quoting the following few lines from another Arabian poet before his times:

Dark the cavern and, the mountain range is high,

Hand 'nchained and foot'nfettered, there am I,

In the heaven of my soul the moon and sun,

Gleam like two black diamonds darkling and dun,

Mid the blood and earth and tears and clay apart,

Something quivers momently, ah, 'tis the heart.

Another strange thing about Gibran is that he tried to hide the exquisite and majestic tunes behind his lines by he himself rearranging his rhymes in blank verse. This was certainly because a strong character like him did not like leaving a chance to dullwits to sing his very songs. Songs from his work Tears And Laughter-The Creation Of Man, The Creation Of Woman, A Poet's Death Is His Life, Song Of The Rain, Song Of The Wave and A Lover's Call have since been successfully rearranged for appreciating their vibrant and unique musical content. It has been proved beyond doubt, that Gibran was purposefully masking his tunes with blank verse.

There is yet another strange thing about Gibran's songs. Whoever goes after a serpent will have to grieve. Whoever immerses himself in Gibran will have to go through and suffer the same misery, agony, poverty, pain and neglect depicted by this poet in his lines.

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