Flowers entrust people with sacred and pure feelings.
"Song of Flowers" is one of Kahlil Gibran's collection of prose poems "Songs". The poet uses the language of flowers to narrate the words of nature. The text fully displays the softness and conciseness of "Kahlil Gibran's style" , elegant and fresh. The poet constructs a living picture of nature through the fresh expression of the language of flowers.
This article is included in the third lesson of the first volume of the 2018 Chinese textbook for sixth grade. The fourth lesson in the first volume of the 2019 Chinese textbook for sixth grade.
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"Song of Flowers" is one of the poems in "Selected Poems of Kahlil Gibran". The poet uses the language of flowers to narrate the words of nature, and the article fully displays the "Gibran style" "The softness, conciseness, elegance and freshness in it.
The poet constructs a living picture of nature through the fresh expression of the language of flowers. The picture contains poetic romance and realistic reality, such as "I am the daughter of the elements: winter gave birth to me; Spring makes me bloom; summer makes me grow; autumn makes me sleepy." He wrote about the growth and fragrance of flowers.
And "I am a gift between relatives and friends; I am a crown at a wedding; I am the last sacrifice given by the living to the dead." It reveals the withering fate of flowers, and everyone says that Gibran's poem It has profound philosophical implications. It can be seen from this that the poet writes life with poetic narrative and sharp thinking.
If there are flowers in life, there will be fruits. When the poet sees these two points, he particularly appreciates the former. The last two stanzas describe the positive and optimistic attitude of flowers. The poet looks at life with a dialectical perspective. This is The poet's true intention.