Undergraduate/Literature
Prompt: Essay #1 (draft worth 5% due week 2, final version worth 20% due week 4): 25%. Compare two translations of the Wang Wei poem. Weigh the relative merits and shortcomings of each of these choices. Analyze the choices the translators made, and argue for which approach to translation is most effective for its target audience and purpose. Discuss why this translation is the strongest, based on criteria you have established (fidelity to the original, aesthetics, originality, etc.). (800-1000 words).
– 800- 1000 words
– MLA
– 2018/04/11 before midnight
Choose two poems from the attached PDF, and compare them by stating both merits and shortcoming of each one. Cite the resource, and analyze what choices the translators made.