Yet translators of poetry rarely aim for that kind of fidelity, because a word-for-word rendering usually destroys exactly the qualities — rhythm…

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1. Yet translators of poetry rarely aim for that kind of fidelity, because a word-for-word rendering usually destroys exactly the qualities — rhythm, ambiguity, sound — that made the original worth translating.
2. A literal translation of a legal contract is, in an important sense, a good translation: ambiguity is a defect to be eliminated wherever the source language permits.
3. This is why the best poetry translations are often the work of poets themselves, willing to depart from literal accuracy in service of a comparable effect in the new language.
4. Between these two poles lies most everyday translation, which borrows a little fidelity from the contract and a little licence from the poem.