Imagery in translation. Exercises for translation

EXERCISES FOR TRANSLATION

• Study the rhythm, metre, stanza and rhyme patterns in
the poem as well as their expressive functions in the text.

• Study the choice of words in the poem and comment on
their logical and emotive value in the text. *

• Identify the syntactic character of the sentence and com­
ment on its function in the creation of the poetic maxim.

• Study the epithets in the poem and comment on their ex­
pressive power.

• Study the structure of the antithesis in the poem and com­
ment upon its role in the imagery and poetic thought.

• Reconstruct the main stylistic device of the poem and
comment upon the structure and function of the metaphor.

• Experiment with the text: change the rhyme scheme, re­
place lines, words and stylistic units. Compare the result with the
original poem and comment upon the difference.

• Translate the text word for word into English and analyse

the result.

• Reconstruct the rhyme scheme of the source text in Rus­
sian and complete the lines according to the original stanza me­
tre.

• Consider the ways of reproducing the stylistic compo­
nents of the Russian poem in English and see if any changes and
transformations are inevitable or desirable,

• Complete the translated text and read it aloud to compare
how of the poem sounds in English and in Russian.

• Discuss the results and comment on your preferences in
the choice of words and transformations of the source stylistic
units.

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