English Bible translations

The two translations of the poem “Some People Like Poetry”, written by Wislawa Szymborska, each create the tone of the poem differently through chosen diction, including the use of repetition and speaker versus the absence, resulting in a divide of both clear and opaque meaning of the analysis Szymborska tries to convey through the process of questioning. The poem “Some People Like Poetry” is focused around the theme of questioning: not only the idea of enjoying something, but the definition of…

be a way to express passion. Poems, books and songs take parts of life and make them relatable to struggles or joys. After translation, a songs potentially lose their underlying meaning and touch, stripping away the creative techniques authors reach the heart of listeners. The lexicon and knowledge of a translator greatly influences the quality and accuracy of a translation. I asked my bilingual friend, who will be referred to as Ernesto for the sake of this paper, to translate the first verse…

the whole world will need to learn about it. Since each part of the world has a different language, translation is a necessary tool in ensuring the history of a certain place is known in another by translating its works to a language understood by people in another part of the world. Babylon is a location with lots of history; this has led to numerous translations of its history. One such translation is the Epic of Gilgamesh. This paper will look at the…

became a medicine man because he let the natives control him. Resendez transitioned Cabeza de Vaca into being a medicine man because of his earlier practices of healing natives on Malhado, which aligns with the primary source. In David Frye;’s translation of the primary text of Cabeza de Vaca Relacion De Vaca reveals that since God our lord had been pleased to spare me through all my hardships and illnesses and lead me at last to their company, they resolved to flee. He is so that he…

strategies that are used when writing a poem or the tone of each writer. For example, “The Flea” and “Death, be not proud” by John Donne’s are two different poems also, each one of them had their own rhetorical strategies and tone. The Flea is an English poem written in the 17th-century by John Donne. The speaker…

According to American Counseling Association, vicarious trauma is, “The term vicarious trauma… sometimes also called compassion fatigue, is the latest term that describes the phenomenon associated with the ‘cost of carrying’ for others” (2011). An interpreter’s job is to convey communication from one person to another person. Sign language interpreters also do this while interpreting, but there are more parts to this process than just language between the clients. First, sign language is a…

The fifth chapter of Interplay centers itself around the principle of language, and how it so greatly effects interpersonal communication. One of the concepts that stuck out to me from this chapter was the nature of language, and how language is rule-governed. There are both phonological rules and syntactical rules, which respectively mean “how sounds are combined to form words” and “the way symbols can be arranged,” which are simply how the language is organized and interpreted to their…

There are a vast number of poems that vary from overall message, level of difficulty, and use of literary devices. Poets will manipulate these factors to aid them in the process of creating a product that will embody their purpose. As a result of different mindsets and individual expression, certain poems are more difficult to analyze than others. To explore this concept it is necessary to analyze poems from each spectrum of difficulty. The poems “Messy room” by Shel Silverstein, “The Reason Why…

Next, more similarities between “Light House” and Erin Hanson’s poem is synecdoche. Both poem use synecdoche and the same synecdoche, the heart. The heart is also a symbol. Both poems share a symbol as well as a synecdoche. BV illustrated, “it can crush your heart because you feel every / inch of those unhealed wounds” (BV, “Light House” 14 - 15). Hanson wrote, “My heart no longer knew, ...And it taught my heart that some things,” (Hanson, untitled 12, 17). Both hearts represent the whole…

Poems are very complex and sometimes hard to understand at first. Some may even have more than one meaning or maybe not any true meaning at all. The best way to figure out poems is to reread them and during your second time rereading the poem, slowly read through it and jot down some notes or what you picture when you read a certain line or lines. What this is called is analyzing. When you do this you look for the deeper meaning and understanding of a poem. The poem I am going to analyze is…