Some Reflections on the Translatability orUntranslatability of Contemporary Persian Poetry

The contribution of translation in inter-relating the cultures is undeniable. In addition, the literary texts possess a lofty position in showing and resounding the thoughts, emotions and imaginations of people of the world. However, the translation of literary texts, especially poems have always been a questionable issue giving raise to lots of challenges, such that many translators and literary men believe that untranslatable. Today studies on the subject of translation have entered into the field of inter-disciplinary issues, the authorities of linguistics, literature, and philosophy are studying its quiddity, reasonability, and its nature and they have already expressed various contradictory views about the issue. According to the findings of the present paper, the content, and message of the poem, also different kinds of figures of speech, like symbol, metaphors, allegory, and many others, as well as imagery, allusion, implicature, and historical and cultural issues are mostly translatable, what has convinced some authorities of untranslatability of a poem is its melody and music which appear in the forms of rhyme, rhythm, pun, and the cases in which the meaning and form have been interwoven such that any acceptable translation seems out of reach.