2009Journal of Hunan Institute of EngineeringRequires access

Translation of Comparison,Personification and Exaggeration in Mao Zedong Poems

Zhizhong Zhang

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Beauty in artistic conception is one of the most outstanding aesthetic features in Mao Zedong poems,and rhetorical devices play an important role in creation of beauty in artistic conception.Mao Zedong is original in using various rhetorical devices,through which he has created his unique artistic conception.In English translation,if rhetorical information is lost,the aesthetic information in the original poem will be weakened,and the original style will be distorted.Therefore,translation of rhetorical devices is of great importance.The paper makes a contrastive study of different English translations of three rhetorical devices such as comparison,personification,and exaggeration adopted in Mao Zedong poems.

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Beauty in artistic conception is one of the most outstanding aesthetic features in Mao Zedong poems,and rhetorical devices play an important role in creation of beauty in artistic conception.Mao Zedong is original in using various rhetorical devices,through which he has created his unique artistic conception.In English translation,if rhetorical information is lost,the aesthetic information in the original poem will be weakened,and the original style will be distorted.Therefore,translation of rhetorical devices is of great importance.The paper makes a contrastive study of different English translations of three rhetorical devices such as comparison,personification,and exaggeration adopted in Mao Zedong poems.

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Beauty in artistic conception is one of the most outstanding aesthetic features in Mao Zedong poems,and rhetorical devices play an important role in creation of beauty in artistic conception.Mao Zedong is original in using various rhetorical devices,through which he has created his unique artistic conception.In English translation,if rhetorical information is lost,the aesthetic information in the original poem will be weakened,and the original style will be distorted.Therefore,translation of rhetorical devices is of great importance.The paper makes a contrastive study of different English translations of three rhetorical devices such as comparison,personification,and exaggeration adopted in Mao Zedong poems.

Key concepts: Exaggeration, Rhetorical question, Beauty, Poetry, Rhetorical device, Literature, Style (visual arts), Art

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