Analyzing the Poem \\"LONDON\\" and its Chinese Translation From Systematic-Functional

• 作 者: 杜娟
• 机 构: 内蒙古大学,
• 出 处: 青春岁月
• 发表日期: 2013年13期
• 关键词: clause something Blake vivid ideational feeling participant poetry weakness symb

London is a poem which is written by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. It is one of the poems in Songs of Experience. it does not have a corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence. This paper applies the theory of Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics to carry out a contrastive analysis of London and its Chinese translation from the perspective of transitivity of experimental meta-function.It concludes that systemic functional linguistics plays a guiding role in translating English poetry into Chinese. It is a standard which can be used to judge the translation too.

London is a poem which is written by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. It is one of the poems in Songs of Experience. It does not have a corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence. This paper applies the theory of Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics to carry out a contrastive analysis of London and its Chinese translation from the perspective of transitivity of experimental meta-function.It concludes that systemic functional linguistics plays a guiding role in translating English poetry into Chinese. It is a standard which can be used to judge the translation too.