FINAL TOUCH : II PU ENGLISH

ON CHILDREN Khalil Gibran The poem On Children by Khalil Gibran offers a critical analysis of the usual expectation of parents about their children and urges them to introspect. The poem On Children is the selection from the work ‘The Prophet’. The poet asks the parents to guide their children with love and care, not to impose their ideas and dreams on them. The poem is in the form of conversation between the mother and the prophet. The central theme of the poem is the children, who do not really belong to parents. It is the fourteen line poem where it enlightens the parents about their children and role as parents. A mother comes to the prophet and asks him to speak about the child. The prophet tells the parent that they are not the owners of their children. They have come to this earth as Life’s longing for itself and are born as sons and daughters and are created by parents. So the parents should not be possessive about their  children.  They ha...