Aesthetic Appreciation of Literary Translations
Aesthetic Appreciation of Literary Translations
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1朱素珍：Appreciation of poetry translation in the cross-culture background
Abstract
It is such a thoughtful question that how to translate poetry in the cross-culture background. It is not difficult to translate poetry, and large quantities of translators and writers have provided us uncountable excellent versions of translation of poetry. A professional translator has the responsibility to achieve the effects of three principles put forward by Yan Fu: faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance which are one of the important criteria for translation. This essay would mainly discuss the appreciation of poetry translation based on the three principles as discussed before with the analysis of different versions of translation of the same poetry. After the comparable analysis of these versions, whether the translators have obeyed the three principles as well as whether the cultural factor has been considered or not can be uncovered clearly. Furthermore, in the process of appreciation, people can also learn how to translate the poetry properly. Besides, such analysis is conducive to the appreciation of poetry translation in the cross-culture background, which is inspiring and instructive.
Key words
poetry translation; cross-culture background; Yan Fu’s three principles of faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance
Introduction
Comparative analysis of different version of translation of poetry
In this part, it is necessary to make some comparative analysis between different versions of translation. As we all known, translation is also a process in which the translators try to create and translate. Translators are the creators at the same time. Because of their different culture background, educational background, their translation experience and some other factors, different translators can create different versions of poetry. Therefore, in this process we can experience how the translators construct and create the translation based on their embodied experience and professional quality. It is not uncommon that the same poetry may have different versions of translation. And the appreciation of translation is to analyze how the translators translate it and why they would try to translate in such a way. At the same time, translation appreciation is not just a process to appreciate it, it is also a process to learn. Translation can be seen as a bridge that relates the reader and the writer in different language background. Without translation, it is impossible to transmit the beauty and amaze of literary works to more people, not less achieving a grandeur and multi-cultural literature feast. The translators are like the builder of the bridge, and their subjective factors including attitude, spirit as well as objective factors involving building method, the natural factors and so on are a unified system that would influence how the builders construct the bridge. It is believed that there are no best versions of translation, but better one. Therefore, the unlimited nature of translation makes it possible for us to make a comparison between kinds of versions, because there is no best translation but better one.