Stylistic innovations in kahlil gibran's works: With special reference to the prophet

Kahlil Gibran's works have the simplicity of diction and the melody which soothes both the ears and the soul of the reader The paper presents Stylistic Innovations in Kahlil Gibran's Works: with special reference to The Prophet Kahlil Gibran's works have the simplicity of diction and the melody which soothes both the ears and the soul of the reader. Not all writers can write words with such lightness and intrinsic musicality. Gibran's language is rich, layered, harmonious, and highly electric, while often at the same time appearing quite uncomplicated. It was his simple and imaginative style which made his work famous in both Arabic speaking and English speaking world. Gibran had a profound feeling for language and chose his words with care. He believed that words as they are used in creative literature are everlasting and they are an indefinite source of meaning, sounds and associations which is absent in ordinary speech. He as a poet always understood that his visions of eternity were untranslatable. The effort of describing his visions, through the medium of language was a constant struggle for him, but at the same time it was a delicate process that helped him to polish his diction. That is why he was able to transform even the most ordinary words into very meaningful metaphors and images. Gibran employs myths very rarely and he has no mythological system as such but his poetry centers around one great living narrative, the holy Bible.