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Parallelism in ancient Semitic poetry
Hi Waltz, One has to get used to the rhetoric of ancient Semitic poetry before one's ear is trained to tell the difference between a translation that takes the rhetoric into account and one that doesn't. To me, the difference is salient and non-negligible. Practice with the Psalms in their original musical dress has helped me enormously in this ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 29, 2008
Re: A 4,000-year-old poem
This is a very impressive poem, after its archaic style! It's interesting all the same that Tom Sleigh ignored (willy-nilly) the salient feature of ancient Semitic poetry, which is parallelism. Without it, the real rhetoric of the poem is not just lost in translation, but is excluded from it beforehand. Had he not ignored parallelism, this is ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 28, 2008