The Strategies of Chinese Translation of English Poems英语论文

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1、TheStrategiesofChineseTranslationofEnglishPoemsWhydoIselectthissubject?AsanEnglishmajor,IamparticularlyinterestedinEnglishpoem.ThegreatnessofEnglishpoetryliesinthecadenceform—meter,rhyme,thephotographicimage,andtheskillfuluseofrhetoricaldevices.Literaryorpoetryclassicscanbeaccessib

2、letopeoplefromvariouslinguisticbackgroundsbymeansoftranslation.ButtranslationofEnglishpoetryintoChineseisdifficultinthatEnglishandChinesebelongtodifferentlanguagefamilies.MythesisistopresentageneralviewofstrategiesusedinthetranslationofEnglishpoetryintoChinese.ChapterIIntroductionF

3、orm,ImageandRhetoricaldevicesareintegralelementsinapoem.InordertorecreatethebeautyofEnglishpoems,thethreeperspectivesneedtobetakenintoconsiderationwhendoingtranslation.ChapterIIForm1.MeterMeterisdefinedasthearrangementofsoundsinpoetryintopatternsofstrongandweakbeats.Thisarrangement

4、oftwoorthreestressedandunstressedsyllablesconstitutesthebeautifulcadenceofEnglishpoems.However,Chineselanguageisboundwithwordsofonlyonesyllable.Inordertosolvethisproblem,therenownedChinesetranslatorZhilingBiancoinsthemethodofsubstituting“pause”inChinesefor“meter”inEnglishpoems.Diff

5、erentfrommeterwhichisbasedonphonetics,“pause”isbasedonsemantics.ThetransformationmakesitmoreacceptabletothetargetreadersinChina.2.RhymeRhymeisdefinedastwolinesofpoetrythatendwiththesamesounds.InEnglishpoems,itisthealternativelinesthatalwaysrhyme,withvariousschemes.Themosttypicalrhy

6、meschemeisababcdcd.Onthecontrary,Chinesepoemtendstorhymeaaba.Asaresult,itisagreatchallengeforthetranslatortopickoutaproperrhymetoconveythebeautyoftheoriginalpoem.ChapterIIIImageEzraPounddefinedimageas“aliteralandconcreterepresentationofasensoryexperienceofanobject.”Itcanbebrieflydi

7、videdintotwocategories.Someimagescanarousethesamesensoryexperiencesofpeoplefromdifferentculturalbackgrounds,whileotherscannot.1.UniversalImages5SomeimagesinthepoemsbearthesameimpliedmeaningbothinEnglishandChineseculture.Forexample,"rose"standsforlove.Theseimagescanbeliterallytransl

8、atedintoChinesethroughthes