Problems in translating poetry

Solutions to reduce Poetic translation problems

By suggesting different approaches to the problems translators encounter when they translate poetry, researchers and scholars developed relevant strategies and methods that can be adopted in translating poetry are useful if one of the sources is English. Some of Lefevre's methods consider the form of a poem like the literal, ryhmed and metrical translation while the other four strategies are concerned with conveying the exact meaning of a poem. Thus, translators have the voice to use the strategy that suits their intentions about the form or meaning when they translate poems. Before Lefevere's seven famous strategies, several other strategies have been suggested to diminish the problem of poetry translation. For instance, Hariyanto proposes that understanding the structure of a poem and examining the structure of each phrase and clause are the basic steps to deal with the linguistic issues. In this case of aesthetic problems, Hariyanto suggests that in order to give readers a chance to understand the meaning of certain cultural words in poems, "the translator has to supply the cultural equivalent in the target text". In other words, translators must be able to distinguish between reference meaning and poetic meaning and "translators of poetry must reproduce original metaphor scrupulously.