[ المناقشات ] : الشعر الإنجليزي في العصر الروم English poetry

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Discusions

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She Walks in Beauty reveals different types of beauty. Which type is the most preferable to you?

The beauty of the soul., mind and manners.
This is perfection itself. Physical beauty is not everything

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"The Little Black Boy" portrays remarkably the great influence of the mother on her child. Explain

She has a great way to teach her child what she wants him to learn

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First impression can be misleading sometimes. Discuss referring to She Walks in Beauty.

• the beauty is like the beauty of clear stalit night itis abeauty that combines the most attractive elements of darkness and brightness
  itis agntle soft beaty like the beaty of night which is more tender than that of the day
  
  
  
  

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First impression can be misleading sometimes. Discuss referring to She Walks in Beauty.

He talks about women's exception beauty internal as well as external praises her physical beauty.

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First impression can be misleading sometimes. Discuss referring to She Walks in Beauty.

The memory of the beautiful rainbow and its pleasant associations form the link between his childhood, adulthood and his old age: past, present and future. Wordsworth concludes the poem by expressing the desire that each day of his existence to be linked with the next by beautiful and simple natural sights like the rainbow

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6- Explain why the poet is greatly attracted to the woman in She Walks in Beauty

internal as well as external
and the first stanza the praises her physical beauty
and the second and the third stanza praise both her physical and spiritual or intellectual beau

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Why does Byron believe that his beloved is responsible for the parting.?

the poet holds his beloved is responsible for the parting because she has broken her vows

and she leaved him alone

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The skylark's joy is a precious wish to the poet in" Ode To a Skylark". Comment

the experience of happiness is bound inextricably with the experience of sadness: dwelling upon memories and hopes for the future, mortal men “pine for what is not”; their laughter is “fraught” with “some pain”; their “sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought
Pain and languor, the speaker says, “never came near” the skylark: it loves, but has never known
“love’s sad satiety.” Of death, the skylark must know “things more true and deep” than
mortals could dream; otherwise, the speaker asks, “how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream

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Death is unavoidable and inescapable according to Larkin in
" Next Please". Discuss

The theme of this poem is the disillusionment that we experience as a result of the disappointment
of all our hopes and expectations. We keep hoping for something good to happen to us, but
our hope is dashed to the ground every time. Only one expectation is always fulfilled in human
life, and that is the expectation of death

10-Victirian poetry has many unique characteristics. Mention six.

1-It was an age of drastic changes in the British society as a result of industrialization and rich landowners were turning into businessmen.

2-It was an age of adventure, free enterprise and individual initiative. 3-It was age of imperialism. The reasons for imperialism were fundamentally economic:

A-Looking for cheep raw- materials.

B-Finding markets for manufactured goods.

4-Names of great imperialists and politicians appeared in the Victorian age: e.g. Disraeli and Gladstone.

5-It was an age of scientific progress in which great scientists and thinkers lived: e.g. Darwin, Huxley, Karl Marx

6-Faith in the reality of progress was the main characteristic of the early Victorian Age. Doubt, skepticism and questioning became the main characteristic of the later Victorian Age

11 -" My Last Duchess" embodies the story of a loving husband. Agree or disagree. Give reasons

I disagree because this poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso, the Duke of Ferrara, who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem, and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Duke’s marriage (he has recently been widowed) to the daughter of another powerful family. As he shows the visitor through his palace, he stops before a portrait of the late Duchess, apparently a young and lovely girl. The Duke begins reminiscing about the portrait sessions, then about the Duchess herself

12-" Break, Break, Break" reveals Tennyson's sadness and sufferings. Explain

This is a sad poem inspired by death of tennysons intimate friend aurther hallam

13- In modern poetry, man is represented as a lonely exile who is seeking his home. Comment

i think he is talking a bout the main characteristics of the modern poetry

because the man start to talk about his real feeling about the world and the loneliness he feel

14- Show Larkin's pessimistic view of life in " Next Please"

The theme of disillusionment and of the death , that experience as a result of disappointment of all of our hopes and expectations

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1- In light of the urgent need of knowledge, discuss the importance of translation.

A certain language system has its own features and norms that people use to communicate with each other. What if two sides who are speakers of two different language needs to communicate with each other for a certain purpose? Here comes the importance of Translation.

2- It is obvious that not all texts are the same. They differ from each other. Discuss.

TEXT 1 is a religious text taken from the Holy Quran.

TEXT 2 is a bank leaflet

TEXT 3 is a technical text describing a certain disease.

TEXT 4 is a literary text taken from the novel “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte

TEXT 5 is an official speech by The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques

TEXT 6 is a poem by the famous English poet William Wordsworth.

TEXT 7 is an academic text - thesis abstract

TEXT 8 is a financial text taken from The Economist Newspaper - 1998

TEXT 9 is taken from a tourist brochure

3- Discuss the difference between text type classifications suggested by Hatim and Newmark.

Hatim classified text types according to their rhetorical purposes to : argumentative, expositive and instruction-based.

Newmark depends on Buhler's functions of language to deal with text types. According to Buhler, there are three language functions:expressive, informative and vocative.

4-What do hybrid text mean to you?

Sources of Hybrid Texts

Although Schäffner and Adpb were the first, according to Farahead (2004), to do a comprehensive study on hybrid texts with regard to translation studies, they were not by any means the first to do a study on such texts. This term has been in use since 1990s, “but in another context and with an essential shift in meaning” (Snell-Hornby, 1999: 108

5- What questions should you ask before beginning translating a certain text?

- What is the message content of this particular ST?
- What are its salient linguistic features?
- What are its principal effects?
- What genre does it belong to and what audience is it aimed at?
- What are the functions and intended audience of my translation?
These quesions are strategic question

6- Discuss the relation between text types and translation studies.

Translation is often regarded as a project for transferring meaning from one language to another .

"It is obvious that not all texts are the same type. We may distinguish between political texts, legal texts and medical texts; fairy tales, novels and short stories differ from newspaper reports, essays and scientific papers; food recipes, instructions booklets and advertisements may show similarities but they are not the same, expository texts differ from argumentative texts, etc. All these types of text differ in ways that are somewhat obvious, intuitively, but which nevertheless invite detailed analysis"

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What is a metaphor? How to translate a metaphor?

arison, including as, such as and like. The word metaphor derives from the Greek word metaphor meta meaning ‘over’ and phora/pherein, which means ‘to carry’. Aristotle defined metaphor as “the application to one thing of the name of another thing”. Translation theory seems to be lacking a

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8- What strategies do you follow to translate a financial text?

In light of the theoretical background outlined before, discuss the strategic decisions that you have to take before starting detailed translation of the following text then translate it into English. The translation will be presented to educated people

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Discuss the freedom of the translator when translating a religious text and literary text.

Example: Translation religious text from the Holy Quran will be more difficult than translating a text from a language to another because some words will take more than 2 or even 4 meaning so all the text could be misunderstood but any text will be easy to translate even if it’s with different ways it will be fine but the religious text is not.

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Talk about translating the advertisement.

the translation of advertisements has evolved during the last decade towards what is now called advertising localization it is not amere change of designation stemming from computer scince vocabulary but aradical change of perspective concerning the real nature and modes of linguistic and cultural transfer from one languge in to an another

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What points should you concentrate on when translating poetry?

every language ha sits own poetry system and when we translate poetry we should know both ST and TT poetry system .

sourse text and target text

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What issues do you take into consideration when you translate a literary text?

compound words are translated in to arabic as an adjectives and noun

the rules of combination and word order of the larger languages should be taken in to consideration

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A bank leaflet is a text type that requires some certain way of translating. Discuss.

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if you are facing difficulties logging into our internet and mobile

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In light of the course contents, point out the major issues that have been explained during the lectures.

these texts purports to deal with the real worid as it is experienced by observable

they are more or less informative and it is understood to take an objective view

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