시인(詩人) 지브란 칼릴 지브란 연구

Abstract

Gibran was Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, poet, and artist. But in this thesis I will only treat Jibran as a poet because of his great role to revolutionize the Classical Arabic Verse. Gibran’s early works were written in Arabic and are considered central to the development of modern Arabic literature. From 1918 he wrote mostly in English and managed to revolutionize the language of poetry in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1920 he founded a society called “the pen bond”, and supported the struggle to revolutionize the classically conservative Arabic literature. Usually Gibran used prophetic tone to condemn the evils that torment his homeland or threaten the humankind. His style, a combination of beauty and spirituality, became known as ‘Gibranism’.