My
translation of the Bengali classic poem
Banalata Sen, by Jibanananda Das. As one can see, my strategy was ot lean ehavily on borrowings from the English poetic tradition to conjure a sense of "antiquity"--always a difficult quality to project across languages and cultures!
2 comments:
Oh wow! Nice translation. Didn't know you were fluent in Bengali.
I am not, as I should have made clear, my friend Hassanal Abdullah did the literal and I styled it up....
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