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Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry

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Translation Is a Creature

There are no general rules. You jus i can decide as you go along. Yet some, in some poems, music is the logic. There is this pit in every one, in every pom,. This little pit in all the corner. So you have to find this pit. The very way you find it doesn't really matter. It could be through the metre, or different metre when you travel into a different realm of different language. Or this kind of rhyming. Again, again, the background of the rhyming tradition of this country writer so many things. But i absolutely agree with stephen that each poemi is a creature. And you you do not approach like you

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