Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Of Pearls And Stars Comments

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The pearly treasures of the sea,
The lights that spatter heaven above,
More precious than these wonders are
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Heinrich Heine
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Terry Craddock 21 December 2016

'The sea hath its pearls, The heaven hath its stars; But my heart, my heart, My heart hath its love.' a problem with poetry is that it is the least translatable language medium, because poetry loses rhyme and the richness of sound and connotative and denotative word play in other languages I liked the second translation better, yet parts of the first have more merit, interesting images

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Heinrich Heine

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