The Tendency of Imagery Level Descending in the Translation of Poems of Three States of Imagery into English

TAN Meng

Jun. 2021

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TAN Meng. The Tendency of Imagery Level Descending in the Translation of Poems of Three States of Imagery into English[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(5): 55-63.

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TAN Meng. The Tendency of Imagery Level Descending in the Translation of Poems of Three States of Imagery into English[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(5): 55-63.

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The Tendency of Imagery Level Descending in the Translation of Poems of Three States of Imagery into English

TAN Meng

College of Foreign Languages, Hunan First Normal University, Changsha 410205, China

Received Date: 2018-05-15
Available Online: 2021-06-01

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There exist differences in construction of aesthetic value among poems of three states of imagery: poems of scenery imagery takes beauty, poems of emotion imagery takes emotion, poems of truth imagery takes truth, which is the core of the construction of aesthetic value. If a translator fails to identify a poem’s state of imagery, imagery level descending will arise when it is translated to English: a poem of emotion imagery is changed into that of scenery imagery; a poem of truth imagery into that of scenery imagery; a poem of truth imagery into that of emotion imagery. The reasons for such descending are explored. The pursuit for implicit, imaginary-real aesthetic effect; image language’s polysemy, ambiguity and cultural nature; rhetorical devices such as metaphor, symbolism, insinuation, all these factors obscure the original poem’s true state of imagery, and lead to descending of the translated poem’s state of imagery at last.
- translating poems of three states of imagery,
- imagery level descending,
- scenery imagery,
- emotion imagery,
- truth imagery

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