The Translation
Whose poem have you been loving?
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The Translation
A poem you love was written in a language you don't speak. The translator swapped images, changed a river to a road, and invented a line to keep the rhyme working in English. Readers in both languages say it's beautiful.
Whose poem have you been loving?
Then ask
- Would you swap it for a clumsy version that's word-for-word right?
- If the translation is better, who gets the credit?
- Is a joke that lands in another language the same joke?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.