ON ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF R. M. RILKE’S POETIC LANGUAGE

This study aims to assess the adequacy of form German sonnets when reproduced in English translations. The focus is on interrogative sentences, which, together with sonnet a macro-sentence, shortened verse and enjambment, are characteristics innovative features Sonnets Orpheus by R. M. Rilke. lyrical cycle among most translated into world languages Rilke’s poetry works, as well Duino Elegies. Both professional amateur poets translators have been competing put Austrian writer’s best poems English. Here we examine more than twenty translations English, made from 1936 2008. importance comparative linguistic-stylistic original its determined continuing interest works English-speaking countries necessity understand principles reconstructing poetics using language. system methods used this work includes: historical philological analysis, linguistic stylistic description, analysis translation that was developed V. Bryusov (1905), N. Gumilev (1919), Lozinsky (1935), E. Etkind (1963), S. Goncharenko (1987). We found nature not always reflected In some translations, American British significantly modified original: sentences dominating XVII XVIII second part lyric were G. Good, D. Young, C. Haseloff, Mardas Billias others.