ANALYSIS OF DEVIATIONS IN ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN TRANSLATIONS OF LI BAI’S POETRY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND TONAL PATTERNS
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Abstract
Tang Poetry generally refers to the poetry created in the Tang dynasty period. Tang poetry is the most precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, a pearl in the treasure house of Chinese culture, and at the same time making a great impact on the cultural development of the countries bordering China as well as ethnic groups that lived near China. There is a great variety of Tang poetry forms. There is a great variety of themes, vivid images and characters in Tang Poetry. Tang poets used a wide range of rhetorical means in their poems, such as analogy, parallelism, contrast, comparison, impersonation, metaphor, antithesis and unique rhetorical devices foil (衬托), synaesthesia (通感) and qixing or introducing the mood (起兴). Due to the strict metrical poetry restrictions the content of the poems was easily constrained, that is why poets did not have the freedom of creation and self expression. At this point Tang poetry reveals certain flaws and difficulties for translators. This article in an attempt to make an analysis of deviations in English, Ukrainian and some Russian translations of Li Bai’s poetry. It also covers the problem of the misinterpretations as well as their causes. Translations are compared to the original poems and analyzed from several aspects, such as sentence structure and tonal pattern. Furthermore, based on the analysis of the experience of several famous translators was made an assumption about several main causes: the translator’s lack of Chinese language knowledge, indirect translation, and Western and Chinese cultural differences. The article provides examples in English and Ukrainian.
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Li Bai, poetry, misinterpretations, Ukrainian, English, translation
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