Transformation and Optimization——Probing the Translation of Poetic Beauty from the Angle of Cloning
Poetry,as a treasure house in language,is the best combination of knowledge,culture and enjoyment. Because of cultural differences in any two languages,translation is a challenging activity,and poetry translation is the toughest in this field. Xu Yuan-chong holds the opinion that the translation should be able to express one’s ideas first,second to convey feelings,and third to be moving. Xu puts forth the theory of cloning together with the methods of "equalization,abstraction and concretization",forming a unified system of practical and creative Chinese translation theory. Poetry is translatable. And we can even go one step further to say that poetry is not only translatable,but can be bettered in the target language to some extent,so long as the high quality gene of the source language can be cloned just like what happens in organism.