TRANSLATIONS OF POETRY: STANDARD & PROBLEMS

Abstract

Translation is both languistic and cultural activity and it is concerned with communication of meaning. The translation of poetry poses a good deal of problem for translator. Poetry translation involves not only the transfer of meaning but a host of associations charged with the meaning which needs to be translated from SL text into TL text. The most difficult thing in poetry translation is Find equivalent words of literary echos in target language.Translation of a poetry is the most difficult mode of translation. This is because it abounds in figures of speech such as similies. Metaphors, irony. Paradox etc.