Now the next step. We are sure, there are creative people among you, who not only like to read poetry, but also to write their own poems. So,we offer 2 poems by English authors and would like you to make your artistic translation of them (any of them, of course). You have about 3 weeks for it (you have to finish this work by April,6).
A
Poison Tree
I was angry
with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered
it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew
both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine.
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my
garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
William
Blake
My
heart's in the Highlands
My heart's in the Highlands,
my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands
a-chasing the deer -
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the
roe;
My heart's in the Highlands,
wherever I go.
Farewell to the Highlands,
farewell to the North
The birth place of Valour, the country of
Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands
for ever I love.
Farewell to the mountains high cover'd
with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green valleys
below;
Farewell to the forrests and wild-hanging
woods;
Farwell to the torrents and loud-pouring
floods.
My heart's in the Highlands,
my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands
a-chasing the deer
Chasing the wild deer, and following the
roe;
My heart's in the Highlands,
whereever I go.
Robert Burns