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A że się dla Śmierci zatrzymać nie mogłam -- translation
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First print Time and Eternity poem XXVII, 27


Johnson poem 712 | Franklin poem 479


Because I could not stop for Death,

He kindly stopped for me;

The carriage held but just ourselves

And Immortality.

 

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,

And I had put away

My labor, and my leisure too,

For his civility.

 

We passed the school where children played,

Their lessons scarcely done;

We passed the fields of gazing grain,

We passed the setting sun.

 

We paused before a house that seemed

A swelling of the ground;

The roof was scarcely visible,

The cornice but a mound.

 

Since then 't is centuries; but each

Feels shorter than the day

I first surmised the horses' heads

Were toward eternity.

 

*****

 

A że się dla Śmierci zatrzymać nie mogłam,

Ona dla mnie postój zrobiła uprzejmie;

Wóz uniósł jedynie nas

I Nieśmiertelność.

 

Wolno jechałyśmy, pośpiechu nie znała,

A wszak odłożyłam ja, przed wyruszeniem

Prace, i wypoczynki wraz,

Za tę przyjemność.

 

Minęłyśmy szkółkę, gdzie dzieci swawola

Domowych swych zadań niewiele znająca;

Minęłyśmy baczne zboża,

I zachód słońca.

 

Przy domku stanęłyśmy, co się wydawał

Jak w ziemi powierzchni wezbranie nieduże;

Z lekka tylko dach wystawał,

A gzyms jak wzgórek.

 

Wieki już minęły, ale każde stulecie

Odczucie mi daje krótszego niż ów dzień;

Wpierw wtedy myślałam, końskie łby

Patrzą, gdzie wieczność.

 

 

 

 

 


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Reviewed by Teresa Pelka
Reviewed on November 30, 2014
Dear Ronald,

There could not be two languages of exact same rhyme and sound; translation does not damage, unless it is indifferent to language nature. I hope to make my rhyme in Polish correspond with the American original -- though they are, necessarily, different sounds, you may think a contour -- I yet doubt the clarity of "a message", whichever the tongue. ;)

As a translator, I do not "disambiguate" (there's no such mind reading); I translate. :)

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on November 30, 2014
Wow! What a beautiful poem with meticulous rhyming and a message that is intriguingly clear. Like Richard said, to translate this beautiful poem into Polish must destroy the rhyme and make it very difficult, indeed.

Ron

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on November 30, 2014
A meticulous presentation. That you care, and your love of language, is evident. Polish English translation (I'm sure) is a genuine challenge. Thanks for sharing...


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