Challenges of Internal Music of Arabic Modern Poetry and its Difficulties in Persian Translation

Poetry translation is one of the most controversial and important issues in the field of translation about which different opinions have been presented. Some considered it impossible, while others endorsed the translation of poetry into traditional poetry and provided successful examples. The situation is different in translating modern poetry (lit. Nima poetry), because modern poetry gives great importance to internal music. Internal music is based on linguistic techniques (modern metaphors, repetition, pun, antithesis, exaggeration, parallelism, etc.) and semantic figures of speech (symbolism, the use of myth, etc.). Badr Shakir al-Sayyab has numerous poetic innovations and linguistic creations, and it is difficult to translate his poetry in such a way that it has the least amount of phonetic and semantic loss. This article seeks to explore the linguistic features of his poetry and the difficulties of translating his poems. The general conclusion is that the translator is able to make the least phonetic and semantic loss using some linguistic techniques in the target language and accuracy in finding lexical equivalence.