Swedish poet Thomas Transtromer wins Nobel Lit

[Azrael]

[Sennacherib]

Congratulations to him. I read a few of his poems. No doubt they're better in the original Swedish than in English translation.

[Azrael]

I'm sure. Poetry tends to be hard to translate without losing the music and subtlety of it.

I've heard that Matsuo Bashō is incredible in Japanese.

furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto
an ancient pond / a frog jumps in / the splash of water

iza saraba / yukimi ni korobu / tokoromade
now then, let's go out / to enjoy the snow... until / I slip and fall!

tabi ni yande / yume wa kareno wo / kake meguru
falling sick on a journey / my dream goes wandering / over a field of dried grass

[AzariLoveIran]

.

quite bizarre

each culture has it's own strength

Poesy not the strength of Scandinavian culture

bizarre indeed


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[Azrael]

Actually, it is a strength. Scandinavia has .

[Colonel Sun]

I initially misread this and wondered why the Nobel prize in literature had been awarded to one of the script writers, Thomas

[Azrael]

You've been waiting for decades to tell that joke, haven't you?

[Colonel Sun]