Word: poeticisms
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...reading; they take full advantage of the great freedom of word order that Latin’s inflectional syntax allows, and form is often inextricably linked to meaning. Nietszche noted that the arrangements of words in the odes resemble the tesserae of a mosaic—a poetic translator’s nightmare...
Somehow, though, both in his translations of the Odes and other work, Ferry manages to convey the poetic gist of the original. Robert Frost famously noted, “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” But, as Ferry makes so clear, Frost was only half correct, for poetry functions on two levels. The first is its purely linguistic pleasures—poetry is distillation of language creation, and all of its linguistic uniqueness is lost when it is translated. To whatever extent a poetic translation is linguistically pleasing, it is entirely due to the work...
While enjoy is not a word I can use to describe my experience reading Gibbs' account, I want to say what a wonderfully written piece it is: full of solid information but thoughtful and at times poetic without being corny or hyperbolic. A very, very nice job accomplished under what I assume was tremendous pressure. KRISTINE GROTH Minneapolis, Minn...
Right now I quite like Mandarin songs more than Cantonese songs. Mandarin songs are more touching and poetic. Hong Kong pop songs are just too direct and boring. Also, Hong Kong pop audiences are quite wild. In Taiwan they really listen--no matter how fat or pretty or handsome you are. No matter what you look like, it doesn't matter...
...site, which registered an imposing 40,000 hits one month last year. "I love all kinds, as long as it?s good." Like most web critics, she is at heart an enthusiast, and her site is her hobby. Skrzyniarz is no terror of Tinseltown; she has kind, if not poetic, things to say about all eight of the latest films on her site - and this in a summer when films liked "America?s Sweethearts" (which she gives 2-1/2 stars) and "Cats & Dogs" (2-1/2 stars) are begging for some form of critical euthanasia. But Skrzyniarz thinks "real...