The poem “The Prophet” belongs to Arabian literature written by a well-known

American artist, poet and writer Khalil Gibran, this poem speaks to people in different stages
of life. According to Bushrui and Malarki (2015) Arabian Literature is a reflection of the
experiences of the Arabs from the fugitive life to Islam’s birth which is highly reflected on
their poems and stories. The poem “The Prophet” shows the experiences of a wise man that
is about to set sail in his homeland after being exiled. The departing moment leaves people
astonished by his idea of Love, Marriage and Wisdom. The ideas presented are
philosophical in manner, and it teaches us to live in a virtuous life.

Love is not always sweet, that is how the poem describes the concept. This line from
the poem supported this idea:

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he
for your pruning.

The following line describes how love requires bravery to enjoy its definable features,
and satisfying comfort. Love is wounding, breaking, and can see situations where you
understand the waves beating with continuous melody.

Marriage is where love takes its functions, specifically those people, not related by
blood, who felt a great affection for each other. It binds us for a lifetime but such binds
should not be too tight or too loose.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

We can all perceive the idea of love with limitation. Let love be the bridge that
connects you but not directs you. Marriage includes unification and freedom. There are
things that concerns both of you, but there is also a part where you have to resolve on your
own. There should be respect and openness.

Moreover, the concept of children is also presented in the poem. Children are the
products of love, and what completes a family. They deserve care and protection from their
parents. It is their parents’ responsibility to raise them but not to overtly possess. These lines
from the poem conveyed the idea that children are created because the world needs a life,
and their parents only served as an instrument to yield lives needed in this world.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

 Even though parents raise and nourish them, they should not control and manipulate
their own free-will of thought. They have their own decisions in life which parents are
expected to support and cultivate their dreams.

Thus, these three concepts: Love, Marriage, and Children show the interweaving
relations that had struck within the indescribable bliss and fragile aching of love, and then it
strode off to the encompassing strap of marriage filled with openness and not excessively
dependable with each other. Finally, the gift of love that affection and marriage shared
through dark and dazzling day: Children. They are the arrows that seek to soar, and to reach
their own utmost potential. These poems illuminate the cycle of human life that leads to the
appreciation of the aesthetic world of experiences. Love lead people to marriage, create a
family by having a child and when the child came to the right age, do the same process.