UKRAINIAN TRANSLATIONS OF ENGLISH POETRY IN TERMS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Abstract

The relevance of the problem is explained by the fact the Ukrainian language is arising more and more interest in the world nowadays and it’s quite urgent to analyse its possibilities to translate the well-known English poetry. For those who are interested in poetry in their native language and are studying Ukrainian as a foreign one it is both useful and pleasant to make the analysis of the two languages abilities to create an aspect of intercultural communication. Our investigation is based on Emily Dickinson’s poetic works and their Ukrainian translations made by N. Tuchynska, O. Zuyevsky, M. Gablevych, and O. Hrytsenko. The purpose of the research is to identify the possibilities of the Ukrainian language as a target language in poetic translation and to characterize translation finds and losses. Emily Dickinson’s poetry is characterized by the combination of different verse meters in one poem, the special use of punctuation marks, in particular the frequent use of dashes. E. Dickinson’s poems are also distinguished by such stylistic means and techniques as assonance, alliteration, graphon (in the form of capitalization of individual nouns), paradoxes, epithets, metaphors, etc. Different translators resort to different ways of adequate translation. O. Zuyevskyi prefers contextual substitution, grammatical restructuring of sentences, modulation, concretization and domestication, uses archaic Ukrainian vocabulary in order to compensate for the loss of some original lexical units of the official style of speech. O. Hrytsenko tries to reproduce the original syntactic structure, but, resorting to such translational transformations as grammatical substitution, deletion, contextual substitution, addition, and concretization, he loses key stylistic techniques – the author’s paradox, antonomasia, epithets, irony and satire. Anyway in certain cases, due to the combination of various verse meters, the lack of a clear rhythm and the unjustified use of certain vocabulary, the architecture and compositional structure of the verse text are not preserved. We see the prospects of the investigation in creating practical tasks for the advanced level learners of the Ukrainian language to compare the original and the translated text under consideration. Key words: the Ukrainian language, the English language, poetry, translation.