A Comparative Study Of Two Chinese Versions Of English Prose Poem Stray Birds—From The Perspective Of Three Beauties Theory

Prose poem translation is a kind of activity that is constrained by social conventions and cultural customs with some degree of originality.Compared with general literature translation,because prose poem is a kind of poetry that gets rid of its formal constraints but retains its nature,and thus theoretically speaking,Chinese translation of English prose poem could achieve the unity of content and form,prose poem translation is the recreation comprehensively constrained by the original poetry.The thesis elaborates the poetry translation theory from the perspective of Xu Yuanchong's Three Beauties Theory,explores the translation principle of prose poem according to its characteristics,and compares and analyzes the reappearance situations with examples of Zhenduo Zheng and Tang Feng in their respective Chinese versions of Tagore's Stray Birds from three specific aspects of the beauties in conception,sound and form.The thesis summarizes the similarities and differences of two Chinese versions in reappearing three beauties,and the techniques applicable for the Chinese translation of short English philosophical prose poem based on the translation criteria of choosing and balancing three beauties,which are that with the priority of reappearing the beauty in conception,translators could try to reappear and even enhance the beauties in sound and form by making the most of the unique structural and rhetorical features of Chinese and the characteristic that prose poem has no template,in order to make contributions to the comparative study of Stray Birds' translation versions and Chinese translation of prose poem.