Elia Abu Madi
Elia Abu Madi (1890-1957) was a Lebanese Christian poet. Though born in Lebanon, he moved to Alexandria, Egypt with his uncle when he was 11. Shortly after the publication of his first collection of poems, Tazkar al-Madi, he was exiled by the Ottoman empire and moved to the United States where he continued to write and publish poems and began a career as a journalist. Source
Philosophy of Life
Whoever thinks life a heavy burden
Is himself life’s heavy burden.
Enjoy then the morning as long as it lasts,
Fear not its loss before it is lost.
Oh you complain when nothing ails you
Be beautiful and you will see the world
To be beautiful
Published:
None
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Modernism
Anthology Years:
2020
Themes:
Faith & Hope
Literary Devices:
Imperative
an instruction or a command
Polyptoton
The use of multiple words with the same root in different forms.
Repetition
a recurrence of the same word or phrase two or more times