Evaluating the translation of feathers and the horizon.

Abstract EN

Feathers lind the Horizon is a volume of Arabic poems translated into English by an Australian author.

This paper attempts to evaluate the translation in the light of criteria derived from theories of translation.

II concludes that no one theory should be adopted slavishly in translating poems and that the translation, if successful.

should preserve the message of the original poem without unnecessarily deviating from the structural.

semantic and figurative equivalences that may be shared by the original and the target.

Throughout the discussion.

it is emphasized that the criteria have been violated on a number of occasions.

This has led 10 the construction of poems.

which.

although a pleasure in their own right.

do not necessarily communicate the messages of the Arabic poems.