{"id":629,"date":"2019-10-24T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/italian-translation\/?p=629"},"modified":"2019-11-18T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T16:22:15","slug":"veglia-and-soldati-translated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/italian-translation\/veglia-and-soldati-translated\/","title":{"rendered":"Veglia and Soldati Translated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giuseppe Ungaretti is an Italian poet, and is famous for his poems, some of which were influenced by the World War I and II. I will translate<\/span>Veglia<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Soldati<\/span><\/i>. My translation process will consist of analyzing the poems, creating literal translation, then creating a more communicative translation, and finally I will be explaining the choices I made as a translator.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h5>\n
1. Veglia<\/span><\/h5>\n

Original<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Veglia<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Un\u2019intera nottata\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

buttato vicino\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

a un compagno\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

massacrato\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

con la sua bocca\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

digrignata volta al plenilunio,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

con la congestione\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

delle sue mani\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

penetrata\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

nel mio silenzio\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

ho scritto\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

lettere piene d\u2019amore.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Non sono mai stato\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

tanto\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

attaccato alla vita.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The poem is about Ungaretti writing a poem about him being up and writing about\u00a0 a friend of his who has died. The word \u201cmassacrato\u201d in the 4th line is interesting in the poem because a part of meaning \u201ckilled\u201d, it also means that perhaps Ungaretti\u2019s friends\u2019 words were used against him. The word \u201ccongestione\u201d creates a challenge, because in the Italian dictionary means that there is excess blood in an organ, perhaps a symbolic meaning to the friend being slightly purple in color due to death. The last few lines \u201cNon sono mai stato tanto attaccato alla vita\u201d literally means \u201cI have never been so attached to life\u201d, but \u201cattaccato alla vita\u201d is means that Ungaretti realizes he was very close to this person.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Literal Translation<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

Vigil<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

A whole night<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

thrown close<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

to a friend<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

massacred<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

with his mouth<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

gnashing<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

at times at the full moon<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

with the congestion<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

for his hands<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

penetrates<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

in my silence<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I wrote<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

letters full of love.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I never stayed<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

so\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

attached to life.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Communicative Translation<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Vigil<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

A whole night\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

thrown close<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

to a friend<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

slaughtered<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

by his own mouth<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

which were clenching teeth\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

at the moon,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

with the paleness<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

of his hands<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

penetrated<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

me in my silence<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

and I wrote<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

letters filled of love.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I have never been<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

so\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

attached to life.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the final communicative translation I made a few changes. I changed \u201ccongestion\u201d in the literal translation with \u201cpaleness\u201d. I also changed \u201cgnashing\u201d with \u201cclenching of teeth\u201d because I felt it embodied the idea of his friend suffering, more than \u201cgnashing\u201d did, and that is what I thought to be in the spirit of the source text. There was some translation loss, because there was loss of the ambiguous language that Ungaretti uses in his poems, that make his poems so rich in context.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2. Soldati<\/span><\/h4>\n

Original<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Soldati<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Si sta come\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

d\u2019autunno\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

sugli alberi\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

le foglie.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The title of the poem is \u201cSoldiers\u201d, however, the poem does not use that word or any word related to war. The poem states that is it like autumn with leaves falling. It is referencing how the leaves fall, the soldiers fall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Literal Translation<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Soldiers<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It is like\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

in autumn<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

on the trees<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

the leaves.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Communicative Translation<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Soldiers<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

We are like\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

the autumn\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

leaves on<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

the trees.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In this translation I kept the same idea of the source text. One thing I did differently from the literal\/ST was to put the word \u201cleaves\u201d in the 3rd line and \u201ctrees\u201d on the 4th line, almost switching the two lines,\u00a0 just so it can make grammatical sense in English. I think this translation has very minimal translation loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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