3. William Blake
While in Paris, Gibran was introduced to William Blake (one of the many Romantic poets that he admired during his life), who became another influence in his work.He became so hugely invested in Blake, that his friends started to call him ‘mad Blake’. In Blake he found similar religious views, spiritual and sociopolitical visions.If we compare the two poets, we can find many resemblances in the way they think and see the world.Gibran shares some of these insights in The Prophet.
Scholars such as George N. El-Hage suggest that Gibran’s Orphalese is similar to Blake’s Golgonooza, the great mythical city of art and science.He says that they believed that as poets, they were creators of new worlds and possessed the key denied to …show more content…
But he doesn’t define Evil, rather it talks about the Good and rejects the idea of being labelled as ‘evil’, when humans do something that is not considered as ‘good.’ Blake hated this Western tendency as well, this habit to distinguish between good and evil.He called for embracement of both concepts and of mutually accepting them, just like Gibran tries to communicate in the
While in Paris, Gibran was introduced to William Blake (one of the many Romantic poets that he admired during his life), who became another influence in his work.He became so hugely invested in Blake, that his friends started to call him ‘mad Blake’. In Blake he found similar religious views, spiritual and sociopolitical visions.If we compare the two poets, we can find many resemblances in the way they think and see the world.Gibran shares some of these insights in The Prophet.
Scholars such as George N. El-Hage suggest that Gibran’s Orphalese is similar to Blake’s Golgonooza, the great mythical city of art and science.He says that they believed that as poets, they were creators of new worlds and possessed the key denied to …show more content…
But he doesn’t define Evil, rather it talks about the Good and rejects the idea of being labelled as ‘evil’, when humans do something that is not considered as ‘good.’ Blake hated this Western tendency as well, this habit to distinguish between good and evil.He called for embracement of both concepts and of mutually accepting them, just like Gibran tries to communicate in the