In T S Eliot "the Waste land" or in WB Yeats Poetry we can find number of symbols and expressions to expose their feelings taken from ancient languages. Present day generation, I feel, showing their interest in technology rather than creativeness in language. as a result sweet fragrance of beauty in language is going to disappear.
Depends on the rhyme. Shakespeare's sonnets make much more sense when read in Shakespearean English - especially those about marriage (lol). However, you might have to approach an actor rather than an academic in order to prove my point. x
They absolutely are adequate when you consider poetry as enshrined in rhythm. The musical chord of Chaucerean and Shakespearean English for the 21st century ears might be equated to that of say, Chinese classical music to the ears of the Inuit in Alaska. The feelings therein expressed will still be appreciated with equal interest.
Dear, if you consider Amelia Rosselli, a trilingual italian poet, whith her "elizabethan" verses, an the enormous fortune of her poetry now among young students, you may have an idea of the answer to your question.
Yes, they are applicable. Visual artists often imitate great masters as they develop their own expression. The great Medieval and Renaissance authors did the same with their Classical models. Decades ago, Gilbert Highet wrote: "Translation has another function, equally valuable and less obvious. It enriches the style of the translator's language. This is because any distinguished book when translated usually carries with it many stylistic patterns which the translator's language does not possess. It may, for instance, be written in a form which does not exist in the new language. When it is translated, the form will be naturalized" (The Classical Tradition, Oxford UP, 1949, p. 112.).
To take it back even further than Chaucer and Shakespeare, examine the 8th lyric of the Roman poet Catullus ("Miser Catulle"), which demonstrates themes common to all poetry about broken romantic relationships, whether in poetry or lyrics of popular music (q.v. http://vroma.org/~hwalker/VRomaCatullus/008.html). Catullus' imagery evokes feelings of loss (l. 1-2), metonymizes the brightness of the Sun as symbolic of the lost relationship (l. 3-8), and expresses his determination to go on (l. 9-13). But Catullus' imagery approaches a modern voice when he tells his lost love that she'll never find another like him (l. 14-18), finally concluding with a plaintive (and likely insincere) repetition of his determination (l. 19). We find these images repeated over and over again through the centuries. --KDN, FHSU
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