RECREATING FORM AND MEANING IN THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ALISHER NAVOIY’S GHAZAL
Keywords:
Alisher Navoiy, ghazal translation, poetic translation, form and meaning, Dennis Daly, literary translation, symbolic imagery, English translation.Abstract
In literary translation, the relationship between form and meaning has long been regarded as one of the central problems of translation studies. As Roman Jakobson observed, “poetry by definition is untranslatable. Only creative transposition is possible” [4; 238]. This statement is especially relevant to the translation of classical Eastern poetry, in which poetic form is inseparable from artistic content. In the ghazal tradition, meaning does not exist independently of form; rather, it is realized through meter, rhyme, refrain, sound pattern, symbolic diction, and coherence between couplets. Therefore, the translation of a ghazal into a Western language presents not only a linguistic challenge but also an aesthetic and cultural one.
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