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A Contrastive Analysis of the English Versions of Spring Morning

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DOI: 10.23977/jsoce.2023.050416 | Downloads: 17 | Views: 382

Author(s)

Lun Zhou 1, Hongkun Yang 1

Affiliation(s)

1 College of Foreign Languages, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, 063210, China

Corresponding Author

Lun Zhou

ABSTRACT

Poetry is a kind of language art form with rhythm, metre and emotional color. It expresses the author's thoughts and feelings in a highly concise, free and unrestrained way with rich imagination, bright rhythm, elegant rhythm language and clear line arrangement form, and reflects the social life in a concentrated way. As for poetry translation, it is not only an accurate translation of the content expressed in the original text, but also an expression of the indescribable beauty contained in the rhythm and rhyme. However, it is the perfect combination of content and form that can fully convey the beauty of poetry to readers. Without any part of it, it is doomed to become incomplete. From the perspective of translation criticism, this paper discusses and analyzes the two English versions of Spring Morning, in order to provide theoretical support for the translator's translation practice.

KEYWORDS

Language, poetry translation, translation criticism, Spring Morning

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Lun Zhou, Hongkun Yang, A Contrastive Analysis of  the English Versions of Spring Morning. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2023) Vol. 5: 108-112. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2023.050416.

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