한시 번역을 둘러싼 논쟁

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to examine existing discussions on the translation of Sino-Korean poetry, and to pursue a translation method of Sino-Korean poetry for enhanced accessibility by readers. Both in the east and in the west, the most controversial issue in translation is poetry. It is because the implicit meaning of the original poetry is hard to be transferred through the translated version. In particular, rhythm is problematic. Rhythm of poetry is based on the speciality of the relevant language and therefore, it is hard to represent rhythm of the original version. Discussions on rhythm of poetry have been progressed to recognize various kinds of intrinsic rhythms removing the adherence to the appearance rhythm in the text. But, translation of Sino-Korean poetry has been still focusing on metric rhythm. The concept that authentic ‘poetry’ needs a set of pattern regularly repeated in the whole text is the outcome of lack of understanding on the features of the Korean classical poetry. To the contemporary readers, the stereotypical rhythm in the translated poetry is meaningless, and the translation focusing only on rhythm may hinder the popularization of Sino-Korean poetry. Since the authenticity of poetry does not mean patterned poetry, it is necessary to translate Sino-Korean poetry in a various rhythm patterns instead of translating it in 4-metric rhythm only.