ON TRANSLATING POETRY

The present study attempts to probe poetry translation as a demanding subcategory of the genre of literary translation. Depicting the controversies among translation theorist concerning the issues oftranslatability of poetry, equivalence, version and adaptation, and the position of a literary translator in the field of literature, it will also gothrough the procedures suggested by Landers and Hermans. Moreover, it will propose verse translation—what Holmes calls metapoem —as theappropriate method of translating poetry. This paper will take advantage of theoretical frames laid out by several critics of the field of translation,especially literary translation, including Lefevere, Basnett, and Holmes.

کلیدواژه ها:

translation ، literary ، poetry ، metapoem