Abou ben adhem biography of christopher jackson

A poem a day, complete with analysis, criticism, biographical info, literary anecdotes, trivia, and our own skewed sense of humour About time this chestnut appeared on this list, eh? I've always had still do one crib about this poem. It is overwhelmingly didactic. But perhaps the use of this poem as a good lesson to be taught to kids colours my opinion here.

I adore this poem. Being American educated, it was not "inflicted" upon me and I had never heard of Leigh Hunt.

"'Abou' means 'father of' in Arabic, and 'ben Adhem' means 'of the tribe of Adam.' So I believe that the name is an idiosyncrasy, meaning "A father from the tribe of Adam' which .

I'm trying to find out more about the background of the poem and its seemingly Arabian slant. Hope by "date" you don't mean the date the poem was written. Abou ben Adhem is certainly older than that. I learned this poem as a child in school in ala.

"Abou Ben Adhem" is a poem written in by the English critic, essayist and poet Leigh Hunt.

It always gave me a sense of contentment, too bad the children of today are not blessed with literary works such as this. I had a dream about the Abou Tribe and I am looking for any infromation you could share with me about what it is or was, or any readings that could answer my questions. Thank you! Some 60 years ago, my mother used to recite this poem to me as a boy.

I recall that it was a source of wonder and comfort to me in times that were generally hard. As the years passed, I forgot some of the words, but never the feelings which the poem inspired.