Can anyone tell me about Gibran s life and the poem on children?

Gibran's three most famous poems are The Prophets"Tears and Laughter"., "Sand and Foam".

1. The Prophet

The Prophet is considered to be one of Gibran's most beautiful and thoughtful works at the height of his poetic creation, the Prophet is a prose poem.

The set is like Gibran in Gitanjali

For Rabindranath Tagore.

It has special significance. It was this work that brought the poet worldwide fame and made him deservedly placed among the most outstanding poets of the 20th century in the East and even in the world.

2, "Tears and Laughter".

From the very beginning, Tears and Laughter shows the literary themes that Gibran was most concerned about: love and beauty, nature, philosophy of life, humanism.

Social criticism, the poet's mission and loneliness, and so on. All the poems in this collection foreshadow the direction of Gibran's life, and also reflect the development trend of Gibran's artistic style.

3, "Sand and Foam".

Sand and Foam is a collection of aphorisms and allegorical prose poems, which contains 319 of the author's witty sayings about life and art, which were written intermittently by Gibran during his literary and artistic creation, and are the product of his talent and inspiration. "Sand and Foam" can be said to be the "index" and "guide" of Gibran's ideas and artistic ideas.

In order to grasp the ideological context of Gibran's poetry, we might as well read "Sand and Foam" first, in other words, "Sand and Foam" can be regarded as the first door to enter Gibran's inner world and artistic palace.

The poem to the child Gibran reads:

Your children are not your children. but children whose lives are longed for. They came through you, but not from you, and though they were with you, they did not belong to you.

Children are not actually your children. They are the children of life's desire for themselves. They were born through you, but they did not come from you.

You can shelter your children's bodies, but you can't imprison their souls. The soul of the child dwells in the House of Tomorrow, a place that you cannot visit in your dreams.

Your children are not your children, they are the children of life's thirst for themselves, they came through you, but not because of you, though they are with you, but they do not belong to you, you can give them your love, but not thoughts, because they have their own minds, and you can build houses to shade their bodies, but not their hearts, because their hearts dwell in the house of tomorrow, and you do not have a chance to visit them, even in dreams.

Gibran Kahlil (English: Gibran Kahlil, January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931), born in the northern Lebanese mountain village of Busheri, Lebanese poet, writer, painter, the main founder of modern Arabia, art and prose, one of the pioneers of the new Arab literary road in the 20th century, known as "artistic genius" and "Lebanese literary pride", his main works are "Tears and Laughter", "Prophet", "Sand and Foam" and so on.

It means that you have given life to your child with love.

On Children is written by Lebanon.

Poet Gibran.

written. Although the title of this poem is "On Children", the specific content is about the way of parents. Parents often neglect one of the most important goals of education: the development of an independent personality.

They like to interfere in all of their children's major life choices. This poem points out that children are independent, equal individuals with their parents, and parents can only give their children love, but they cannot replace the formation of their minds and souls.

About the Author. Gibran was a Lebanese poet, essayist, and painter. He received his basic education in Lebanon, studied painting in France, and settled in the United States for a long time from 1911. He is Arab.

The first writer in the history of modern literature to use the prose poetic style.

His main works include the prose poetry collection "The Prophet" and "Tears and Laughter".

Sand and Foam", etc. Most of his works are based on the themes of "love" and "beauty", and express deep emotions and lofty ideals through bold imagination and symbolism.

Your child, in fact, is not your child.

They are the children of life's desire for themselves.

They were born through you, but they did not come from you, and although they are with you, they do not belong to you.

Give them your love, not your thoughts, because they have their own minds.

Give shelter to their bodies, but don't imprison their minds, for their hearts belong to tomorrow, to tomorrows that you never dreamed of.

You can try to make yourself like them, but don't try to make them like you, because life doesn't go backwards and it doesn't stop at yesterday.

You are the bow that shoots the arrows of your child's life, and the archer aims at the target on the infinite path, and he uses all his strength to drive you away so that his arrows can shoot fast and far.

Let him be pleased with the bend of your hand in the archer's palm, for he loves both the flying arrow and the firm bow.

Today, I read Gibran's "On Children" and felt some feelings.

1.The feeling of reading the English poem is that love is so powerful, it seems to be like the sun radiating jujube light waves in every corner, just a little gap can be drilled into it, straight to the heart. With my shallow level of English, I can feel a strong love and deep thoughts.

Maybe it's like the phrase love is love

2.After reading the translation of the Chinese version, I felt that some words were not translated accurately and thoroughly, but I thought about it for a while, it seems that using other words will seem too blunt and inaccurate, and I can't think of better words.

Your children are not your children, they are the children of life's desire for itself.

They were born through you, but they did not come from you, and though they were with you, they did not belong to you.

You can give them your love, not your thoughts, and be lenient because they have their own thoughts.

You can take care of their bodies, not their souls, because their souls live in a tomorrow that you can't dream of. You have to learn from them, not make them like you.

Because life does not go back, nor does it linger yesterday.

You are the lead, and the child is a living arrow that is fired from your child. The horse archer looks at the archers on the path of eternity, and he will pull you away with all his might, so that his arrows will shoot fast and far.

Bend with joy in the hands of the archers.

For he loved both the arrows that fly and the bow that stands still.