TEACHING ENGLISH-UKRAINIAN POETRY TRANSLATION: INSIGHT INTO ITS STYLISTIC SPECIFICS
TEACHING ENGLISH-UKRAINIAN POETRY TRANSLATION: INSIGHT INTO ITS STYLISTIC SPECIFICS

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to analyze the specifics of different genres of poetry translation from English into Ukrainian. It focuses on the issue in psycholinguistic and linguostylistic aspects. The study uses the following research methods: comparative-typological, semantic, structural, implication and presupposition analysis, and stylistic analysis. The research material is represented by 21 translation versions of the poem The Road to Understanding by Joe Wallace and 23 translation versions of the poem A Fantasy by Sara Teasdale, performed by university students, where the comparative analysis of ways to render the specific features of poetry is conducted, the methods of English-Ukrainian interpretation of poems are described, and the role of source text in translation is identified. The results of the research show that English and Ukrainian versification differs significantly although it is syllabic-accentual in both languages. It is proved that the precise transference of the poem’s rhythmic structure is impossible because of the specifics of the two languages. While translating from English into Ukrainian, striving for the phonetic correlation that implies the search for a good congruence with the source language's powerful sound clusters is advisable. Expressive means and stylistic devices on different levels and the genre specifics of the poetic text influence both the structural characteristics of a poem and the choice of lexical units employed in it. The rigorous analysis of poetry translation methods in terms of five global text categories representation is considered the prospect of future research.

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