Walt Whitman and Arabic Immigrant Poet Gibran Khalil Gibran/WALT WHITMAN ET POET IMMIGRE ARABE GIBRAN KHALIL GIBRAN

Abstract: Whitman influenced greatly on modern Arabic poetry in general and its prose poetry in particular through Gibran Khalil Gibran, most famous and important Arabic immigrant poet that had ever lived in America for a long time. We can find in Gibran and Whitman's works that they shared strong similarity in their poetics and thoughts. Gibran's prose poetry, first of all, is of same origin as Whitman's in his creative language. Both of them are adept at creating original images by ingenious combination of words. In second place, just like Whitman's poetry, Gibran's works possess an awfully aesthetic sense of music. Like Whitman, Gibran uses graceful rhythm to manifest musical aesthetic feeling in his production. In third place, both of Whitman and Gibran are good at using colors. Some of their poems are almost a collection of colors. Gibran and Whitman also express some similar thoughts in their works. Both of them did not advocate tradition so much Gibran is as sharp as Whitman in his rebellious spirit. Also, it is very explicit that both of Whitman and Gibran are mystic. We'll focus our discussion on their characteristics of pantheism and natural occultism. Keywords: Walt Whitman, Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic Immigrant Poem, prose poetry Resume: Gibran Khalil Gibran, comme d'autres poetes et ecrivains arabes immigres aux Etats-Unis, fut influence par la litterature americaine, notamment par les proses poetiques de Walt Whitman. La creation litteraire de ces deux grands ecrivains fait preuve d'une grande affinite en innovation linguistique, musicalite textuelle, jeu de couleurs, esprit de revolte et recherche du mystique en constituant une parfaite illustration de la communication et les convergences entre la litterature orientale et la litterature occidentale, et surtout celle de l'acceptation de la derniere par la precedente. Mots-cles: Walt Withman, Gibran Khalil Gibran, Litterature arabe immigrante aux Etats-Unis, Proses poetiques Whitman's poetry has a great impact on world literatures. A Czechoslovakian critic once pointed that the new poetic realm opened up by Whitman means similarly to poetry in Asia, America and Europe (Ll Yeguang, 1988, p381.) In fact, Whitman influenced greatly on modem Arabic poetry in general and its prose poetry in particular. His influence on Arabic prose poetry came from some immigrant poets and writers who lived in America. The most famous and important Arabic immigrant poet is Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931). We can find in Gibran and Whitman's works that they shared strong similarity in their poetics and thoughts. 1 Gibran's prose poetry, first of all, is of same origin as Whitman's in his creative language. Both of them are adept at creating original images by ingenious combination of words. Whitman often interweaves nonrepresentational things with familiar words, thus producing such powerful expressions as I Sing Body Electric, To Man-of-War-Bird, Give me splendid silent sun, Over carnage rose prophetic a voice, Ethiopia saluting colors, Whispers of heavenly death, etc. (These are just some topics of his poems, and we can read more powerful expressions in texts of his poems.) Gibran takes fresh gentle yet distinct popular words in his works to construct a new and refined linguistic style, which is abound in imagination and sensation with moral profundity and philosophical abstruseness. In his Arabic prose-poetry anthology Tears and Smiles, we can find such expressions as fair Azrael, virtuous mermaid, mysterious ghost, fairy that gives directions, kindly grandsire of era, fragrant girl of forest, God of sagaciousness, queen of fantasy, and God of madness, etc. In second place, just like Whitman's poetry, Gibran's works possess an awfully aesthetic sense of music. Whitman's melodious poems have been highly appraised by many critics. …

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