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Re: new relay

From:Aidan Grey <frterminus@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 16:59
--- bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
> The thing about poetry is that it is much more > likely to be deeply > entrenched in a set of assumptions than might a > prose selection. Part of > the problem is that poetry is an extreme in > metaphor, which would > probably get lost on the first translation.
That's part of the point, isn't it? Each translation would have to modify the metaphors into a new mind-set, as represented by a language. Even prose will do this. Unless it's very boring prose. I'm personally all for poetry, as long as we don't have to match meter and such. It'll really allow me a chance to get into the "head" of a speaker of Aelya. And it will highlight all the interesting differences between our langs. And finally, I would LOVE doing a piece from the Silmarillion. He's been such an influence on so many of us, I think it would be neat to honor him this way. Aidan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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