| Ezra Pound is widely known as a poet and a pioneer of Imagism. His Imagistthought has inspired a large amount of modern poets. Since he is regarded as fatherof American poetry, his poetry has attracted plenty of research even until present.But his two other identities, a translator as well as a translation theorist, should not beneglected either. As a translation theorist, he did not establish a theoretical system. Histranslation methodology and thoughts are mostly extracted from his translationpractice. And his creation in translation enjoys both praise and critique. Cathay is oneof Pound s masterpieces, which contain nineteen translation works of Chineseclassical poems. Pound s translation ideas could be obviously seen in this work.Affected by his Imagist thought, he paid more attention to the translation of images,instead of trying hard to maintain the line structure or sound effect.The theory of translator s status has been proposed and researched for long.Different scholars have different interpretations on it. Today most scholars have madean agreement on the fact that translators should be given proper freedom forre-composition. A translator is not invisible any more, nor is he/she the servant of thesource text. The thesis notices that there is not much research on Pound s translationworks from the perspective of translator s status, and that Pound s translation ofChinese classical poetry, image translation in particular, is just a perfect reflection ofhis idea that the translator is the host of a literary work to be translated. That is, atranslator has the right to make changes to the original work if necessary.The thesis selects two translated poems from Cathay that could reflect Pound sviewpoints of translator s status and makes detailed analyses on them, thus drawing aconclusion that Pound s translation of images could perfectly represent a translator ssubjectivity. |
