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“Kim olduğumu hatırladım ve oyun değişti..”
Her kayan yıldızdan bir çizik kalır ister istemez yine de kalpte. Çünkü insan duygusaldır. Her şeye rağmen. Ama değişmeyen bir yalnızlık korkusu hikâyede hep vardır. Kalabalıklı yalnızlık daha bir acıtır.
Kafa Dergisi, Yaz
Shin Okazaki
Photo credit to original owners.
Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy
Detail of Portrait of a Young Woman, 1632, oil on panel, The J. Paul Getty Museum, California.
“… ve insanların arasında yalnız olmaktan daha korkunç bir şey yoktur.”
— Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu, Stefan Zweig
understanding poetry is very simple. poems are good when they make you sit on your kitchen floor and scream
"Oh girl. How I pity the dark life you live."
"No one else has ever pitied me, you know."
"No one else has ever been part of your grief."
[dialog between Orestes and Elektra]
Oxford, UK / 2017
Source.
Vintage books and earthy tones
“La sirena y el pescador,” Elisa Chavez.
Hey all! This poem is part of my chapbook Miss Translated, which I produced in a limited run as Town Hall Seattle’s Spring 2017 artist-in-residence. The main conceit behind this work is that to accurately portray my relationship with Spanish, I have to explore the pain and ambiguity of not speaking the language of my grandparents and ancestors. As a result, these poems are bilingual … sort of. Each one is translated into English incorrectly.
The poems I produced have secrets, horrific twists, emotional rants, and confessions hiding in the Spanish. It’s my hope that people can appreciate them regardless of their level of Spanish proficiency.
oh shit. my spanish is pretty shaky, but i’m pretty sure “te perdono” is “i forgive you.” wow understanding just that much is pretty chilling.
and something about…blood? and transformation? oooh yikes. she didn’t want legs in the spanish version did she. and it was a painful process.
so this poem is about…misunderstandings leading to pain for the person misunderstood? whish is really effective with the way it’s written, wow. this is the most meta poem form i’ve ever seen. wow.
#reblog#photoset#poetry#i later ran it thru google translate to confirm my theories#won’t post said translation or say how right i was#cuz i feel like that’s missing the point
<— This right here is AMAZING. Look at the journey this person went on reading my poem! Secret fact, I have been stalking tags and reblogs of this because what I wanted more than anything was to provide an experience for people and LOOK AT YOU ALL GO. Your engagement and enthusiasm is amazing and so humbling for me.
Holy crap, this is incredible. As a natively bilingual Latina woman, allow me to dive into a full analysis.
First, I should tell you my experience of reading this. I didn’t even look at the English at first, because I didn’t know that the mistranslation was the point, and of course I didn’t need it. So I read the whole poem in Spanish and thought it was really sad and moving. Then I looked at the English and my eyebrows went right up to my hairline. Why the hell would you translate it this way, I thought.
Then I read the caption and realized that this is a genius way of demonstrating how translation into English can be an act of colonization and violence.
I would translate the first two lines as “The mermaid rose from the sea / To see the dry world.” They’re very neutral lines. She was curious about the dry world, so she went to check it out. That’s a very different connotation from the mistranslation, which tells you that the mermaid preferred the land to the sea.
The second two lines I would say mean “She found a fisherman on the beach / this beautiful fish without a net.” She’s the one with agency here, not the fisherman, and she thinks of herself as a free fish, unconstrained by a net, not as a fish without a home.
The next three lines by my lights read “She had a gleaming tail; scales / that covered her breasts, arms, and face / and a wake of lacy waves.” Again, it’s from her perspective, not the fisherman’s, and she thinks of herself as having a gleaming rather than oily tail, a lacy wake rather than a frothing one.
Next stanza: “The fisherman caught her by the tail / and cut it in half.” From her point of view, the fisherman has committed a sudden and senseless mutilation. Then he goes, “’Now,’ he said to her, ‘you have legs. / Why don’t you walk?’” It’s almost like an accusation. You have legs now, why don’t you just get up and walk?
My read on the next stanza is: “The mermaid began to sing to the sea / for aid, her blood transforming / the sand of the beach into rainbows.” The sea is her home, not the land, and she’s crying out to her home in pain as she bleeds.
Then the poem ends with “She sang to the fisherman, ‘I forgive you, I forgive you, I forgive you.’”
The reason this mistranslation is so brilliant is that it takes a story about a mermaid trying to forgive a man who’s committed senseless violence against her, and turns it into a story about a man who uplifts a woman to a better life out of the kindness of his heart. And the thing is, that’s exactly what happens to so many stories from colonized cultures when they’re adapted by the oppressor. Translation into English, and further the cultural language of the oppressor, can be an act of violence and erasure rather than one of respect.
This is why I have worked so hard to translate poetry from Spanish to English that has previously only been translated by white Americans who learned Spanish in college. I can bring something to the translation that they can’t. It’s usually not this extreme, but this exists to some degree in all translations by people who don’t truly understand the culture that produced the work they’re translating.
me looking at modern art: its ok but where is the fear of god?
Horatio doesn’t make sense if his rock-bottom social status isn’t OBVIOUS.
Horatio is a lower-class nobody running around the royal court. If he were Hamlet’s golden retriever, the play would go down exactly the same.
None of the upper-class characters talk to him (except Hamlet.) Osric makes a point to ignore him. Gertrude tells him to leave the room after he’s run her down and told her how to handle the Ophelia situation. She’s calling in Rosencranz and Guildenstern to check in on Hamlet like she has no idea he already has a friend already there.
The whole class situation explains Horatio’s generally low opinion of himself. He’s a powerhouse at the beginning and at the end, he’s as brilliant as Hamlet… but he can’t see himself as Hamlet’s equal. Introducing himself as “your poor servant ever,” hitting the “my lord” so much harder than everyone else? Not playing with Hamlet when he has the mind for it? I think he’s dealing with some internalized classism, same as Iago in Othello. (Iago and Horatio have a lot of superficial similarities. I actually think you can make a good case that Iago is Dark Horatio.)
Horatio is also interesting because - in a play about different kinds of bad parents - he is the only main character with no parents or parental figures of any kind. So what’s he doing here?
He’s not here for the plot. He’s here for the theme. Horatio is left calling the shots at the end when society collapses because Society is Horatio’s “bad parent.” It was thing that kept him silent, and away from Hamlet. It is triumphant when Fortinbras (who is Hamlet, but with good parents) comes in at the end and listens. There’s hope for the world after all.
And in order to make this subtext clear in a modern production… just make Horatio an obviously different, disenfranchised ethnicity. Or obviously, flamboyantly gay. Or gender nonconforming, that could be good. Give him a lower-class accent. Or maybe even just make him female - Horatia could be very non-traditionally feminine when contrasted with the hyper-femininity of Ophelia and Gertrude. Do whatever you like with the rest of the cast, and then make Horatio not match.
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so i made a quiz on what role you'd have in a period drama..
i worked somewhat hard on it so you should take it
