English Bible translations

Poetry is often defined as a “literary work that uses a distinctive style of writing to express an idea or feelings.” Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun” serves to be one of the most controversial poems as many individuals take on various interpretations on the work of art. Several readers regarded the poem as demonstrating the inferiority of women to men, which was prevalent during the nineteenth century in which the poem was written. Other readers found the poem to be a…

For this learning study, I had my friend, Brittany read this poem. I chose Brittany because she is an English major and enjoys writing poetry herself. I figured it would be interesting to her interpretation of this poem, because although we had excellent ideas in our class, this is something that she wants to do as her profession. To start this learning study, I handed her the poem and asked her just to read it and underline anything that stood out to her. When she was finished I asked her to…

different adaptations, some truer to the original than others. Even the poem is an adaptation of its original oral tale. These revisions may provide some clarity in the original tale. For example, the original tale was in Old English. Not everyone can understand Old English, so the story was altered for the understanding of a broader audience. Different versions of Beowulf may provide information the story was lacking. Some of the changes made are merely for entertainment purposes. They make…

using this strategy, the translated text will be related to the ideology of the translator only, and this is a kind of unfaithfulness because the translator’s role is interpreting what exists not adding his or her points of view. The translation of these memoirs is a manipulation of the source text, which may happen for different purposes and which happened consciously or unconsciously according to the translator’s ideology. Hatim & Mason assert that “the translator’s intervention…

questions three and four. All students responded to question seven. Some of the responses for what students had learned throughout the course included the difference between Spanish and English social media, how to immerse in latino culture, the definition of Spanglish and that most Latinos in U.S, speak English. One thing I could improve upon was the clarity of question one in the survey because if course objectives were clear but wasn’t concise. The person evaluating couldn’t choose just one…

Robert Haight’s poem, “Early October Snow,” has many feasible interpretations. One viable way to read the poem is in the literal sense. Therefore, in the literal sense this poem is about the speaker describing the beauty in a snowy October day. The speaker uses vibrant words to make this black and white picture become vibrant with colors. After carefully analyzing this poem, the focus of the poem has emphasized the value of time and has explained to cherish the time available. Furthermore, the…

“[R]omanticism means, to most students a unitary shadowy phenomenon which can be extrapolated as forming a middle ground bounded by six poets: Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats and Shelly” (Aers et al. 1). This paper deals with a work by the firstly named author: Blake. It is about the poem “The Chimney Sweeper: A little white thing among the snow” from 1794 from his collection of works named Songs of Experience. The poem is a companion poem to the formerly written “The Chimney Sweeper:…

Poetry is one of the literary genres that is used to pass a hidden message to the readers creatively. Poems are usually imaginative and metaphorical as the poet will often use common words to infer something different from what is commonly known. Various issues of the people can be drawn from a poem by understanding its language and setting. For example, the poem ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ by John Keats brings about the concepts of beauty and truth. Although short, it is full of…

(inner secrets), for failure to embrace the Truth, renders the process of discernment vain and futile. Finally, the composer concludes with a statement of fact - nobody pays heed to a cheat, who knows not the essence of the Lord! The common translation of the word pūchhe is ‘ask’ but in the context of this verse, this word implies lack of esteem for, and attention to, a charlatan – hence, the last two lines might as well have been translated as who cares about a cheat, who knows nothing…

about this he tries to convince her that it 's the right thing to do in order to be happy. The women starts to shut down and close up when the American doesn 't understand what she is trying to say. This goes well with the idea that they are speaking English but they just don 't understand each other. The reason that they are not able to truly talk is because they speak a different language. In Smiley article she said “ The male 's speaker is precise and to the point.” and “ The female 's…