ЗВУКОПИС ВІРША Е. А. ПО “THE RAVEN” ТА ЙОГО ВІДТВОРЕННЯ У ПЕРЕКЛАДАХ

Abstract

The given article is devoted to the studying of main phonetic devices in E. A. Poe’s poem “The Raven” and peculiarities of their rendering in three target languages. Comparative analysis has been based on the original of the poem and its Ukrainian translations of P. Hrabovskyi, H. Kochur, A. Onyshko, V. Marach; Russian translations of S. Andreyevsky, K. Balmont, V. Bryusov, V. Betaki; German translations of K. T. Eben, H. Lachmann, T. Etzel, H. Wollschläger. The main techniques of phonetic devices rendering have been revealed. They are: stylistic equivalence, stylistic strengthening, stylistic weakening, stylistic individualization, stylistic grading. In the course of comparative analysis of E. A. Poe’s poem “The Raven” and its Ukrainian, Russian and German translations it has been found, that early translations, Ukrainian and Russian in particular, are aimed at sense rendering and do not pay much attention to the form, especially to the phonetic devices. In later translations the form and the sense of the original are preserved equally. However, notwithstanding high accuracy of later Ukrainian and Russian translations, German translations are the most precise ones as to phonetic devices’ rendering, because English and German belong to one language group — German group of Indo-European family, that’s why they have many similarities in the phonetic organization.