Songs of Innocence and of Experience: um olhar sobre o processo de tradução

Abstract

The present paper shows the results of the translation studies by analyzing the translation process of William Blake’s two antagonist poems published in Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789), "The Blossom" and "The Sick Rose", respectively, translated by Paulo Vizioli (1993) and Renato Suttana (2011). We have sought to base theoretically on the process of literary translation from the source language to the target language, mainly, on Rosemary Arrojo (1986), Michael Oustinoff (2011), José Paulo Paes (1990) and Paul Ricoeur (2012). Thus, the aim of the paper is to show the translators’ productions for each of the poems and to compare them emphasizing the fact that there are several forms and processes of translation from which the professional can choose. At the end of the analyzes, we concluded that the act of translating is a process of difficult choices that involve identifying the linearities and singularities presented in the literary text, to translate the effects of the meanings that constitute it and that it requires the knowledge of both the source as well as the target languages and cultures.