Poetry Translating as Expert Action Processes, priorities and networks

 Poetry Translating as Expert Action

I 1 Otkuda

Whence

znam

do I know

da

that [conj.]

je

is

tu

there

šuma

[a] forest

kad

when

sama

itself/alone

je

is

tmina,

darkness,

= [a] forest is there = it itself is darkness/darkness is alone

I 1 tolikaso much [adj.]dathat [conj.] suare jeof it pune–full– iand/evenpraznethe empty dupljehollows vidaof sight

= that they are full of it–

I 3 do

to

dna

the bottom

mi

to me

pamćenja,

of memory,

sužnja

of a/the prisoner

što

who

traži

is seeking

provid

the seeing-through

zida.

of a/the wall.

= my depths

I 4 Da li

[question particle]

to

that [pronoun]

pipam

I’m feeling/touching

stabla,

trees,

il

or

mene

me

dira

is touching

tamnina?

darkness?

= Is what I’m feeling/touching = is darkness touching me?

II 5 OtkudaWhence znamdo I know dathat [conj.] je[past aux. vb.] uin šumithe forest tothat [pronoun obj.] kriknulascreamed pticaa bird

= a bird screamed that in the forest

II 6 kadwhen samaitself/alone jeis tišina,silence/quietness, bezvučnothe soundless naličjereverse zvuka,of sound,

= it itself is silence/quietness, / silence/quietness is alone,

II 7 kad

when

i

even

šum

the noise/rustle

moga

of my

daha

breath

prah

the dust

mrklog

of dark/gloomy

postane

becomes

muka,

silence,

= becomes the dust of dark/gloomy silence,

II 8 i

and

šuplje

[a] dull/hollow

bezvučje

soundlessness

uđe

enters

u

into

korijen

the root

glasnih

of the vocal

žica.

chords.

III 9 Tajat krik – scream – tminadarknesstothat otesnatched li[question particle] dangiven [agrees

with ‘krik’]

pticito a/the

bird

izout of drijema?dozing?

= did darkness snatch that

III 10Il

Or

kriknu

screamed [past verb]

ljubav,

love,

il

or

razbojstvo –

robbery –

i

and/even

već

already

ih nema.

they aren’t here/there.

= did love scream, / did it scream love,

III 11Kud

Whither

padam

am I falling

kucaj

beat/tick

po

by

kucaj

beat/tick

sa

from

srca-časovnika?

the heart-clock?

IV 12Gdje

Where

slijepcu

of/for the blind man

vida

of sight

da

that [conj.]

nađem

I nd

žižu

the

focus

sunčevog

of the sun’s

oka?

eye?

= am I to nd

IV 13 Tminu

Darkness

da

that [conj.]

zovem

I call

za

for

sudiju,

a/the judge,

tajac

silence

za

for

svjedoka?

a/the witness?

= Am I to call darkness as

IV 14 KakoHow taj that [adj.]mukhush [noun] dathat [conj.]nadglušimI out-deafen predbefore mukomthe hush mrtvogof a/the dead krika?cry?

= am I to out-deafen that hush

Figure 43. Krik: BCS source text + English interlinear