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Poetry Translation Strategies and Schools * * * * 2. Introducing some existing strategies Seven Strategies by Andre Lefevere Phonemic translation, which attempts to reproduce the SL sound in the TL while at the same time producing an acceptable paraphrase of the sense. Literal translation,where the emphasis on word-for- word translation distorts the sense and the syntax of the original. Metrical translation, where the dominant criterion is the reproduction of the SL meter. Poetry into prose. Rhymed translation,where the translator ‘enters into a double bontage’ of meter and rhyme. Blank verse translation Interpretation. Under this heading, Lefevere discusses what he calls versions where the substance of the SL text is retained but the form is changed, and imitations where the the translator produces a poem of his own which has ‘ only title and point of departure, if those, in common with the SL text’. * * * * James Hollmes 1.? Form-derivative,including mimetic form and analogical form 2. Content-derivative—also called organic form 3.????Deviant form or extraneous form * * Susan Bassnett on Translating Poetry Bassnett holds that the task of translating a poem is to dismantle the SL text of the original poem and reassemble the SL signs and codes in the TL text. Translating a poem is not reproducing the original but creating a similar text. It is transplanting the seed. In order to translate poetry, the first stage is intelligent reading of the source text, a detailed process of decoding that takes into account both textual features and extratextual factors. If, instead of looking closely at a poem and reading it with care, we start to worry about translating the ‘spirit’ of something without any sense of how to define that spirit, we reach an impasse. A poem is a text in which content and form are inseparable. Because they are inseparable, it ill behoves any translator to try and argue that one or other is less significant. Poet