Wednesday, April 12, 2006

did you like it?

I decided to go find a poem on the web and read it and say whether I liked it.

a poem by Tonnus Oosterhoff

Have you read it yet? You don't have to. I didn't like it. But maybe it's the translation.

I liked this line: "a wheelbarrow lull lull"

1 comment:

Glenn Ingersoll said...

Translation is tricky, all right. Even tricker, I would think, with a poem like this that doesn't seem to have a narrative.

Does it make a poem in English that works for me? In the end that's more important to me than how accurate the translator was.