The present article inquires into the difficulties of poetic translations regarded as linguistic products of artistic creation. Translation is an essential point of each communicative act, removing the concept of incompatibility and replacing it with the complementary one. Poetry as a literary text does not say things directly, but brings to mind various prior experiences and stimulates thinking with the help of elevated linguistic forms. The artistic expressive means used in poetry are not related to language alone, but refer to the same extent to the structure, rhythm and melody of the whole texture as well as to the literary genre, creating thus a whole in accordance with the artistic message expressed in it. The quality of a poetic translation might be assessed only due to the pragmatic quality. This thing becomes rather obvious in a communicative translation. J.W. Goethe’s poem “Erlkönig” serves as an illustra- tive example and it is translated into Romanian by Daniela Vladu.

Keywords:

poetic translation, difficulty, product, creation, communicative act, incompatibility

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107-112

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Type:

Research Paper

Field:

Translation Studies

Topic:

Language, context, translation

UDC:

821.112.2`25

DOI:

10.5281/zenodo.495571

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