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Volume 18:1 January 2018
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Intricacies Involved in the Translation of Poetry:
Glimpses from the Works of Bharathidasa

Dr. Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan


1. Introduction

Poetry is notorious for its quality of untraslatability. Some are of the view that poetry has the inherent quality of being lost when translated and some others think that poetry is often amenable to translation. It can be stated that some poems by their very nature have an in-built resistance to translation. It is fairly obvious that such poems cannot be rendered into any other language. In some cases the difficulty may be posed by the strong rhyme and rhythm in the poem. A strictly personal or language-based poem allows no translation and often requires no translation. Where there is transcending element, where poetry tries to heighten our perception of experiences both important and trivial, there is scope for translation. But even the translation of such poems can create any number of problems for the translator.

Though no known language is without poetry and though the conventions governing the language of poetry are likewise familiar to the speakers of all the languages, it is quite difficult to reproduce any of these peculiarities into another language.

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Dr. Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Coimbatore 641112
Tamilnadu
India
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