Kahlil Gibran’s poetry “On Freedom” is a very unique poem in "The Prophet" book which portrays his philosophical views. The two and fifty seconds clip in the movie illustrates the poetry's figurative language and literary devices such as imagery, symbolism, and repetition into a colourful cartoon that has many deep representations . For instance, the video represents freedom as a bird that flies till it is chained by fear; this man-made concern determined to be an obstacle that faces our freedom. Kahlil uses symbolism as a way of conveying the message of fear, referring to birds to be our implicit free souls that are displaced by our fear of failure. For example, the poem starts with a directly philosophical conveying stanza: “like slaves before a tyrant praising him… though he slays them”, which is illustrated in the animation as these free birds that nurture from the cage; this portrayal implicates how people are always seeking to their liberty without knowing the meaning of it. Consequently, the birds represent our inner mind that always is looking for something that it needs without knowing where is it from.
Hence, this message is conveyed another time in a repetition -as repeating indicates the significance of the idea stated before- the birds are shown in another representation as souls fly towards the sun; that symbolizes the hope in being free. In addition, Kahlil displayed that our freedom is a choice we choose and apply it how we desire. All in all, figurative language and literary devices such as symbolism, repetition, and imagery in Kahlil Gibran’s poem, “On Freedom”, is conveyed using a clip in a movie differently combined with another writer’s imagination.
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