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Aesthetic Reconstruction of Meaning in Poetry Translation

Chen Qing-gui

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The meaning in the poetry reveals the poetic existence of man,which is the soul in poetry as well as the core of translation.During translating process,translator needs to percept the original poem's aesthetic traits through empathy,imagination and association,on the basis of which,the meaning is to be represented through image and language.From the different versions of the Tang poems,the strategy they enact is the transplantation of original poem,or the localization according to the reader,or rewriting according to the translator's creation.In any case,it is the aesthetic reconstruction of the translator.

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The meaning in the poetry reveals the poetic existence of man,which is the soul in poetry as well as the core of translation.During translating process,translator needs to percept the original poem's aesthetic traits through empathy,imagination and association,on the basis of which,the meaning is to be represented through image and language.From the different versions of the Tang poems,the strategy they enact is the transplantation of original poem,or the localization according to the reader,or rewriting according to the translator's creation.In any case,it is the aesthetic reconstruction of the translator.

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The meaning in the poetry reveals the poetic existence of man,which is the soul in poetry as well as the core of translation.During translating process,translator needs to percept the original poem's aesthetic traits through empathy,imagination and association,on the basis of which,the meaning is to be represented through image and language.From the different versions of the Tang poems,the strategy they enact is the transplantation of original poem,or the localization according to the reader,or rewriting according to the translator's creation.In any case,it is the aesthetic reconstruction of the translator.

Key concepts: Poetry, Meaning (existential), Soul, Percept, Rewriting, Empathy, Literature, Art

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