To Listen His Chant of Her “Song”: Analysis of Shao Xun-mei’s Translation from a Poem of C. G. Rossetti

WANG Zhi-jie

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WANG Zhi-jie. To Listen His Chant of Her “Song”: Analysis of Shao Xun-mei’s Translation from a Poem of C. G. Rossetti[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(2): 25-32.

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WANG Zhi-jie. To Listen His Chant of Her “Song”: Analysis of Shao Xun-mei’s Translation from a Poem of C. G. Rossetti[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(2): 25-32.

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To Listen His Chant of Her “Song”: Analysis of Shao Xun-mei’s Translation from a Poem of C. G. Rossetti

WANG Zhi-jie

School of Foreign Studies, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510630, China

Received Date: 2018-01-06
Available Online: 2021-06-01
Publish Date: 2021-06-01

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This paper is intended to compare Shao Xun-mei’s poetry translation from C. G. Rossetti’s poem “Song” with its original and with Shao’s poetry creation “Ge” from the perspectives of overall composition, rhythmic pattern and rhyming. The subsequent analysis revolves around the fusion of western influence and translator’s personal preference, aiming at demonstrating at micro-level the process of “Europeanization” in poetry translation of New Culture Movement in terms of how the “hybridization” actually operates. While it provided creation of New Verse in vernacular Chinese with another possible reference at the time, its description in the paper helps enrich understanding of Shao Xun-mei’s practice of his poetry translation and avoids the general and qualitative conclusion of the poetry translation as “total Europeanization”.
- Shao Xun-mei,
- poetry translation,
- Europeanization,
- “Ge”

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