Sue Burke (mount_oregano) wrote,
Sue Burke
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Translating poetry: a thorny problem

Here's a brief article by me about difficulties of translating poetry and ways to deal with them: compensation, paraphrase, adaptation, and word play. I use my own haiku as an example, and as you'll see, even with the finest techniques, the translations don't always work.

http://tantamount.com/2015/01/23/translating-poetry-a-thorny-problem/

-- Sue Burke

Tags: poetry, translation
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