What are the problems associated with translating a poem?

The translator may face the linguistic, literary and aesthetic, and socio-cultural problems in translating it. The linguistic problems include the collocation and obscured syntactic structure. The aesthetic and literary problems are related with poetic structure, metaphorical expressions, and sounds.

How can I translate a poem in English?

I mean that there are some rules to respect when you translate a poem:

1. Stay Close to the Poem. Read the poem again and again until the words become second nature on your tongue.
2. Know the poet. If you are lucky enough to pick a living poet to translate, write to him or her.
3. Go for Grace.
4. Be Wary.
5. Take a Deep Breath.

Can poem be translated?

Poetry can certainly be translated, and it is, but an authentic translation cannot exist if the poet himself does not translate his own work. Poets preserve a particular language in their poems and to translate a poem is to create a different poem in a different language.

Why is it difficult to translate a poem?

Specifically, poems are even harder to translate for so many reasons. There are a lot of factors to be considered including the choices of words, figurative languages used and metaphors. At the same time, the translator must also be able to transfer the emotions and thoughts of the poet.

What is drama translation?

Drama translation is a comprehensive and complex one because the translator has to deal with several relationships at the same time: the source text and the target text, the target text and the target performance, the target text and the target audience, the impact on the source language (SL) audience and the impact on …

Who said there can be no fully exact translation?

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