Strategies used in translating poetry from English to Arabic : a contrastive linguistic study

Abstract EN

This study tries to drive out the stereotype of the untranslatability of poetry.

It focuses on the strategies used in translating poetry in order to reach a good product in the target language.

In order to carry out this operation which some have called “the art of the impossible”, a contrastive linguistic study between English and Arabic versions of Robert Frost’s poetry is carried out, and the results of the analysis are taken into account according to the strategies which are going to mentioned.