Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese-born writer and artist whose poetry, parables, essays, and drawings joined spiritual inquiry with social criticism. The Prophet frames meditations on love, marriage, work, freedom, sorrow, and death as answers given before Almustafa leaves Orphalese. The Broken Wings turns a thwarted love into a critique of restrictive custom and women's lack of freedom. Spirits Rebellious confronts religious and social authority more openly, while The Madman: His Parables and Poems uses masks, reversals, and compressed fables to question accepted wisdom. A Tear and a Smile brings early prose poems together around grief, beauty, and compassion. The Prophet is the clearest route into Gibran's meditative voice; The Broken Wings then shows how the same lyrical intensity enters narrative and social conflict.