Divine Comedies for the New Millennium

2 Purg. 2 Purg. 2 Par. 2 Par.'O brothers,' I said, 'who through a hundred thousand perils have reached the west, to this so brief vigil of our senses that remains, do not deny the experience, following the sun, of the world without people.Consider your sowing: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.' 24'O brothers,' I said, 'who, in the course of a hundred thousand perils, at last have reached the west, to such brief wakefulness 'of our senses as remains to us, do not deny yourselves the chance to knowfollowing the sun -the world where no one lives.'Consider how your souls were sown: you were not made to live like brutes or beasts, but to pursue virtue and knowledge.' 26Rob Brouwer: 'Mijn broeders, die gevaren zonder tal doorstaan hebt op de tocht naar 't Westen,' zei ik, 'wil niet de korte wake die nog rest aan jullie leven, 't zingenot misgunnen een wereld te ervaren vér voorbij de zon, een wijde wereld zonder mensen.Bedenk te zijn verwekt niet voor 'n bestaan van redeloze dieren, maar teneinde slechts achter deugd en kennis aan te gaan.' 27 'O brothers who have reached the west,' I began, 'Through a hundred thousand perils, surviving all: So little is the vigil we see remain Still for our senses, that you should not choose To deny it the experience -behind the sun Leading us onward -of the world which has No people in it.Consider well your seed: You were not born to live as a mere brute does, But for the pursuit of knowledge and the good.' 28 As becomes clear from this little fragment, Pinsky is a rather moderate terza rima translator.In fact, he does not completely follow the rhyme scheme of the original, but chooses instead to adopt a more flexible definition of rhyme.His translation, in fact, is based 'on a fairly systematic rhyming norm that defines rhyme as the ronald de rooy 'O broeders,' zei ik, 'die reeds veel moest lijden, Jullie zijn, het gevaar ten spijt, de west Nabij, wil je er nu op voorbereiden Dat wij in wat ons nog aan leven rest Een wereld vinden waar geen mensen leven; In 't spoor der zon zoeken wij dat gewest.Denk aan je afkomst: 't is ons niet gegeven Te leven als het redeloze beest; Wij horen deugd en kennis na te streven.' 44This translation certainly sounds very smooth and colloquial, but we cannot overlook the typical shortcomings caused by the use of terza rima.In this fragment, for example, the translators had to add several words and constituents, but, more importantly, because of the stress on the rhyming words, the rhythm has become too monotonous.'Amor condusse noi ad una morte.Caina attende chi a vita ci spense.'Queste parole da lor ci fuor porte.['Love brought us to one death.Caina waits for him who quenched our lives.'These words were borne from them to us.]1. my thoughts were fuddled by dismay (Wilbur) 2. My mind somewhat bewildered (Pinsky)

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