

The writer chose Jalalluddin Rumi and Khalil Gibran by considering that first Khalil Gibran is a major pioneer of modern Arabic literature, as the best selling American poet of the twentieth century, and as a Middle Eastern modernist whose intellectual life is documented in meticulous detail. The two famous poets as mentioned above that is Jalaluddin Rumi, Khalil Gibran are considered as the most influence poets in the world. There are many famous love poets in literature world such as Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Nizar Qabban, Ibn Al Farid, Jalalluddin Rumi, Khalil Gibran and many other poets whose works until now are still remembered by romantic poem lovers. In Western culture, moreover, the association between love and marriage gives it a unique status as a link between the individual and the structure of society.Īs mentioned above that love comes in many forms including in literature works, poets express their feelings of love in poems. It has occupied a preeminent position in the art and literature of every age, and it is presumably experienced, at least occasionally, by the vast majority of people. Rubin (1970: 265) states that love is generally regarded to be the deepest and most meaningful of sentiments. Love is (usually) how we are all created in the first place, so technically we wouldn't be here without it. On a smaller scale, we survive as children because of the love our parents or caregivers provide for us. People love money and that creates a drive for them to work harder and run businesses. In a larger aspect, love runs the world around us. Love gives us the assurance that we are not alone in the world.


Humans create love out of strong, personal bonds. It basically comes down to the fact that everyone inevitably either loves something or someone. There is love for God, love between a parent and child, brothers and sisters, or love given by a person to an animal or object. The reason is that love comes in many forms including in literature works. The commonest use of ‘poem’ is ‘any composition in verse’: Verse referring to a set of technical conventions for regulating a composition by line-length, for making the line part of the expressive form, and ‘poem’ claiming to be a genre-term subsuming any production which utilizes that convention.Īlong with the ‘love’ which is used in many poems as the themes, the writer chose ‘love’ as the main topic. Childs and Roger (2006: 181) state that the terms ‘poem’, ‘poetry’, ‘poetic’ and ‘poetics’ seem to be necessarily frequent in critical writing but various in their senses. The reason is that poem is one of literary works which sometimes contains various themes of human senses and feelings, such as sadness, happiness, poverty, depression, hate or love etc. In this research, poem becomes an object of the study. In order to understand the meaning of words, the reader should read the whole content of what a poem says as Arp (2005: 25) says. The language used in poem can be far from the ordinary words and the words can be explained more than one meaning.

In poem, a poet asks readers to participate in understanding the meaning or even their world. Poetry or poem is the literary work that can be formed from the writer’s feeling, observation, or experience. Meanwhile, movie, novel, short story, play, poetry or poem can be the medium for expressing the experience, feeling or idea. Through language, as the media for communication, people can express their feelings or ideas about something to the receiver. The information transmitted is intended only for use by the addressee and may contain confidential and-or privileged material.The concepts of love in Khalil Gibran and Jalalludin Rumi’s poems (INTRODUCTION) SAFETY – FIRST, LAST, and ALWAYS Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. To post emails, just send to: to join this group, send blank email to: to quit from this group, just send email to: please visit to add my Yahoo Messenger at or add my twitter thanks for joinning this group. you have this email because you join to 'aga-madjid' GoogleGroups.
