The Untranslatability of English Poetry 英语(毕业论文).docVIP

The Untranslatability of English Poetry Abstract Poetrys translatability and untranslatability have always been under heated argument. The author find that poetrys features bear the untranslatability in such aspects as musicality, writing form, style and so on. This paper briefly discusses the problem of untranslatability of English verse, including linguistic and cultural untranslatability. Keywords Poetry untranslatability English verse Introduction One of the greatest romanticism poets P.B. Shelley once said:A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. In his opinion, Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower—and this is the burden of the curse of Babel. According to Shelley s idea, I discusses the untranslatability of English verse with an example—a poem When We Two Parted by George Gordon Lord Byron. An Example Lets taking G.G. Byron s When We Two Parted as an example: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS , commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byrons best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, well go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harolds Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as mad, bad and dangerous to know. It has been speculated that he suffered from bipolar I