Article published In: Translating Power Distance
Edited by Maria Sidiropoulou
[Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 10:3] 2024
► pp. 371–387
W. B. Yeats
Unrequited love and gender identity
Published online: 4 October 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.00145.nas
https://doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.00145.nas
Abstract
The study analyzes three Greek versions of two of W. B. Yeats’ poems, ‘When You Are Old’ and ‘No Second Troy’, both related to the theme of unrequited love, merging feelings of bitterness and love. It examines how power distance manifests itself in the three versions of the poems. The study designed a questionnaire to evaluate potential variation in the type and intensity of feelings shaped in the three Greek versions of the two poems. Findings show that there is variation in the interpersonal distance between the poet and the beloved: some translators seem to emphasize bitterness and empathy on the part of the disappointed poet, while others assume more equal power distribution between the poet and the beloved
Keywords: poetry, unrequited love, gender, Greek, aggression, bitterness
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Literature review
- 3.Methodology
- 4.Data analysis
- 4.1‘When You Are Old’ (collection The Rose, 1893)
- 4.2‘No Second Troy’ (The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910)
- 5.Discussion and significance of the research
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