[bksvol-discuss] Re: Difficult scan
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:40:53 -0800 (PST)
Are you allowed to transliterate a poem from another
language that you know yourself and then redo it as an
English poem?
G.Cindy
--- Christine Parsons
<christine-parsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> G. Cindy and all,
>
> G. Cindy wrote:
> "But you mentioned transliteration, which to me
> means word for word
> translation, and then the poetry wouldn't be poetry,
> would it?"
>
> No, it wouldn't. It actually turns into something a
> bit like a paragraph.
> Each line is translated word for word into English,
> so it loses the rhyme,
> meter, etc. of poetry. Then it's my job to make it
> poetry again. I'm taking
> a college class on translation, and we're supposed
> to take the original and
> the transliteration and use them to construct an
> English translation of the
> original poem (in poem form) that is as close to the
> style and meaning of
> the original as possible.
>
> Thank you so much for the list of books from the
> collection. I will
> definitely check them out.
>
> Christine
>
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