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If I Go to England (a poem)

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Well, difficulty can hardly be belittled in poem translation, no matter from English to Chinese or from Chinese to English, for the two differ a lot in the codes of language in poetry. Below is a poem which I wrote in Chinese today, and then I tried to express it in English in order to put it here. Pitifully, I'd read too few original English poems, so I could not do this smoothly. In the course of translation, somehow I had to add and delete a few words. The meaning changes; so does the rhyme and rhythm. 
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If I go to England,

How can I not travel with true mind?

 

How I wish to lay down in the Lake District,

Dancing with William Wordsworth's daffodils.

How I wish to visit Bath or Hampshire,

Wandering in Jane Austen's countryside.

 

How I wish to enter the Westminster Abbey,

Reading aloud two or three ancient verses.

How I wish to enjoy a splendid sunset,

Recalling Edward Elgar's classic music.

How I wish to stroll along the Thames River,

And to watch a play in the Shakespeare's Globe Theater.


Oh, if I go to England,

With feet on another spot of the earth,

How can I turn around and get you off my mind.

Why not pray in a gentle whisper,

When wind blows in the deepening dusk.


Post comment Comment (8 replies)

Reply KonyHu 2016-11-1 23:11
quiet a good poem. I like it  
Reply kuin 2016-11-2 09:45
Good poem.have you ever been to the England?
Reply raicy 2016-11-2 11:48
KonyHu: quiet a good poem. I like it   
    Thank you, Kony~
Reply raicy 2016-11-2 11:51
kuin: Good poem.have you ever been to the England?
Not yet.
But joyfully I'm gonna London soon. My mind has already flew there these days, haha... That's why I took down this poem.
Reply kuin 2016-11-2 14:31
raicy: Not yet.
But joyfully I'm gonna London soon. My mind has already flew there these days, haha... That's why I took down this poem.
For further education?hope you everything goes well then.after you go there, will you share some of  your daily life in this website ? I'm looking forward it.
Reply raicy 2016-11-3 09:24
kuin: For further education?hope you everything goes well then.after you go there, will you share some of  your daily life in this website ? I'm looking for ...
For a short-term travel next year. The schedule has not been determined.
I think later I'll write sth. about this tour.
Reply raicy 2016-11-3 09:38
kuin: For further education?hope you everything goes well then.after you go there, will you share some of  your daily life in this website ? I'm looking for ...
By the way, "looking forward to it". "To" cannot be omitted.
Reply Jesse2016 2016-11-3 09:58
England culture is amazing, a good poem

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