Kahlil Gibran’s Tears and Laughter Recast in the True Poetic Form

By P.S.Remesh Chandran

It has been a challenge to music and poetry appreciators all over the world to rediscover the tunes hid by Gibran in his songs. A Dialectical Metaphysicist himself, some uncanny mystic fate surrounded and enveloped his poems which made them immune to unripe persons. Whoever went after Gibran to find out the hidden music in his poems had to suffer and undergo the same misery, poverty, isolation, neglect and suppression depicted by the poet in his poems. That is why those tunes and versifications which were discovered earlier never came out to the printer's press. The strike of fate on those unfortunates who attempted to recast his poems earlier might have been such forceful and complete that they never could have risen again in their lives. Recasting Gibran poems to bring out the rich musical content in them is easy, but surviving and surpassing the fatal strikes extended from the mystic halo surrounding each poem is not at all easy. This author also did not escape unscathed. Someday I wish to write about my horrible experiences. And I hope someday the results of those other attempts would come to daylight and be published. When Gibran in one of his poems wrote about manuscript pages of the dying poet blown away to future generations by the wind, no one thought it to be a key to the mysticism surrounding the real life of this magical poet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: P.S.Remesh Chandran
• Release date: Jun 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005675882

P.S.Remesh Chandran

Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful hamlet of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Kerala. Father British Council-trained English teacher and mother University-educated. Matriculation with distinction and University Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma Studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single.Author of several books in English and in Malayalam including poetical collections and fictions, a few of which are, Ulsava Lahari, Kaalam Jaalakavaathilil, Darsana Deepthi, Puzhayozhukee Eevazhi, Vaidooryam, Manal, Jalaja Padma Raaji, Goodlaayi Graamum, Time Upon My Window Sill and Swan, the Intelligent Picture Book.Devised and implemented PROPÈS-INDIA, Project for the Popularization of English Songs in India.

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Publication Details:

Written: 1999-2000

First Published: 17 August 2013

First E-Book Edition: 29 April 2018

Form of Release:

E-Book/Paperback

Date of Release:

02 May 2018

Publishers:

Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books,

Trivandrum- 695562.

Text Copyright: P. S. Remesh Chandran (Author),

Padmalayalam, Nanniyode, Pacha Post,

Trivandrum- 695562,

Kerala State, South India.

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Image By: Francesco Ungaro. Graphics: Adobe SP.

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Kahlil Gibran’s Tears And Laughter Recast In The True Poetic Form

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In Malayalam:

ഉത്സവലഹരി

ദ൪ശനദീപു്തി

ഒരുതുള്ളി വെളിച്ചം

കാലം ജാലകവാതിലിലു്

രകാരമാന്ത്രികം

തിരികെ വിളിക്കുക!

തിരികെപ്പോകുന്നൂ ഞാ൯ തിരമാലകളിലു്

വൈഡൂര്യം

മണലു്

ഇലകൊഴിയും കാടുകളിലു് പുഴയൊഴുകുന്ന

ജലജപത്മരാജി

പ്രഭാതമുണരുംമുമ്പേ

ആസു്പത്രിജാലകം

മാവോയെപ്പോലെയാകാ൯ എന്തെളുപ്പം!

ശബരിമലയിലെ മതഭ്രാന്ത൯മാരെ ചങ്ങലയു്ക്കിടണു്ടേ?

രാഷു്ട്രീയ ലേഖനങ്ങളു് (ഇരുപത്തിരണു്ടു് ഭാഗങ്ങളു്)

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Publication Details

Books by the author

Table of Contents

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

Kahlil Gibran’s

TEARS AND LAUGHTER

Recast In The True Poetic Form

01. THE CREATION OF MAN AND WOMAN

CREATION OF MAN

CREATION OF WOMAN

02. SONG OF THE RAIN

03. SONG OF THE WAVE

04. A POET'S DEATH IS HIS LIFE

05. A LOVER’S CALL

06. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF KAHLIL GIBRAN

07. KAHLIL GIBRAN: DID CRAFT LEAD TO MYSTERY OR MYSTERY LEAD TO CRAFT?

About the Author P. S. Remesh Chandran

Kahlil Gibran’s

TEARS AND LAUGHTER

Recast In The True Poetic Form

P. S. REMESH CHANDRAN

Sahyadri Books Trivandrum

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to those creative minds from all corners of the world that attempted recasting Kahlil Gibran’s poems earlier, but did not survive the mystic and fatal blows from the poems.

INTRODUCTION

1

Kahlil Gibran was a U.S- Arabic- Lebanese poet who thrilled the world with exotic tunes and captivating ideas which were once generic and common to Persian poets and Arab poets. This wonder that was Gibran brought excellent, unheard of and unthought-of-before ideas and imagery to the pages of English poetry. His poems have been a source of unending inspiration for poets and poetry-loving public. He is widely accepted as a writer of what is called free verse, blank verse or prose-poems. Considering the sweetness and mellowness of his lines, it is improbable that his mind had not been impregnated with heavenly music when writing these lines. Comparable only to such musically inspired and brilliant poets like Gulchin, Sana'i, Rumi, Nizami, Jami, Hafiz, Amir Khusrau, Firdausi and of course Omar Khayyam in the Persian language of the past, it is only natural and also logical to assume that there are hilarious tunes concealed behind his songs and poems. In almost all his poems can be found slight references to brilliant geniuses let totally ignored, neglected and condemned by the dull wits, half wits and the jealous of their times. Naturally, such geniuses would want to hide or mask their fine things from the eyes of those who they consider lowly in literary perceptions. Thus, we come to the assumption that Kahlil Gibran hid his exquisite tunes behind a mask of blank verse such that the dull wits and half wits of his times won't attempt to sing them and enter the soul of his works. Sure, he must have expected more tolerant and more understanding future generations come to unmask this carpeting of blank verse and unveil the heart-stealing tunes hidden behind them.

2

It has since then been a challenge to music and poetry lovers all over the world to rediscover the tunes hidden by Gibran behind his songs. A dialectical meta-physicist himself, some uncanny and mystical destiny surrounded and shrouded his poems and made them immune to the operations of people, especially unripe people. Whoever went after