Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 20 AIL 1913 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Three Translators, Three Decisions
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The idea
Pope imposed a form the original did not have. Longfellow kept a shape and dropped its sound. Tagore changed genre entirely. Those three exhaust most of what a translator can do, and naming which one a passage shows is the band's characteristic question.
In practice
Impose, partly keep, or change genre.
Where people slip
Three decisions, three cases.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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