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Prose is poetic too
2007/07/29,19:10

Hello my readers, who don't leave any comment on my blogs!

        ( This above statement could be very well applicable to only future readers :-)

     How are you all? I am back again here after a trip to a serene place. This poetry dish is not yet distasteful , may be it never can be so for me. I browsed Kahlil Gibran's works again, for his innovative writing on 'Eating and Drinking' had my attention fixate on him.

    This time, I casually browsed one of his prose - work 'Broken Wings'. The first paragraph itself is so captivating and poetic ( Please see below ) that I went on reading....

My neighbors, you remember the dawn of youth with pleasure and regret its passing; but I remember it like a prisoner who recalls the bars and shackles of his jail. You speak of those years between infancy and youth as a golden era free from confinement and cares, but I call those years an era of silent sorrow which dropped as a seed into my heart and grew with it and could find no outlet to the world of Knowledge and wisdom until love came and opened the heart's doors and lighted its corners. Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

what a fantastic implied metaphor  ( Love -> Sun's light that is needed for the seed ). More fantastic is the thought that the seed of sorrow needed to find an outlet  to the world of knowledge and wisdom as opposed to the conventional school of thought of consolation through whatever means!

I think the best writing is one that not only captivates  the reader but also stimulates her/him to make efforts to interpret it. Through this process the reader's interest is kept alive.

Thanks to Kahlil Gibran and to http://leb.net/gibran/ for making this work available. You can read the whole of this work in the website mentioned. Enjoy! 

 

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