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Some Notes On Translating Poetry

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Notes on Translating Poetry

Notes on Translating Poetry

• What is poetry? P. 97
• The rhythmical composition
• The mode of expression that transcends traditional semantic
limitations of language.
• What is lost in translation
• To translate poetry is to repaint a poem, feelings, emotions, ideas,
and flows of the original.
Metric Verse & Iambic Pentameter

• All words with multiple syllables have accented and unaccented


syllables.
• Accented syllable: the one that is said with more force.
• Unaccented syllable: the one that is said with little force.
• Shakes ՛ peareՍ
• BeՍhind ՛
The meter is what syllable is accented and what syllable is unaccented
Iambic pentameter

• EVery TIME we TALK, we STRING toGEther ACCented and


UNACCented SYLLables without even THINKing aBout it.
• Poets think about this stuff; the use of the rhythm of language to help
convey their meaning.
• Iambic pentameter is the most poetic versification.
• Iamb: is a metrical foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an
accented syllable.
• MacՍbeth ՛! MacՍbeth ՛! MacՍbeth ՛! BeՍware ՛ MaՍcduff ՛!
• ButՍ screw ՛ yourՍ cou ՛ rageՍ to the sti ՛ kingՍ place ՛,
• AndՍ we’ll ՛ notՍ fail ՛. WhenՍ Dun ՛ canՍ is ՛ aՍsleep ՛.
• Lines like these are written in iambic pentameter.
• Therefore, these lines are built with iambs.
• How many iambs are in each line? Five
To translate poetry
• To have a translation that fits in the metered and rhymed version of the original
even if you deviate from meaning.
• To translate in a metrical pattern is to retain the number of lines of the original.
• To scorn musical devices like assonance, consonance, alliteration, and rhyme
scheme.
• To maintain same rhyme scheme.
• OR to get a more accurate equivalent than in the metered and rhymed version.
Free verse (an open form of poetry; it doesn’t use consistent meter pattern.
• You can also translate in blank verse where much of the poem is written in
unrhymed verse but iambic (unstressed & stressed)
Musical devices

• Rhyme scheme: Pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem.


It’s usually referred to by using letters to indicate which rhyme; lines
designated with the same letter; all rhyme with each other.
• Alliteration: when a series of words in a row of close to a row have
the same consonant sound.
• assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds. To qualify as assonance,
the words should be close enough for repetition.
• Consonance: the repetition of the same consonant sound.

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