W. B. Yeats: Unrequited love and gender identity

• Eleni Nasi ^[1]
  1. [1] National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

     National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

     Dimos Athens, Grecia

     
• Localización: Translation and translanguaging in multilingual contexts, ISSN-e 2352-1813, ISSN 2352-1805, Vol. 10, Nº. 3, 2024, págs. 371-387
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The study analyzes three Greek versions of two of W. B. Yeats’ poems, ‘When You Are Old’ and ‘No Second Troy’, both related to the theme of unrequited love, merging feelings of bitterness and love. It examines how power distance manifests itself in the three versions of the poems. The study designed a questionnaire to evaluate potential variation in the type and intensity of feelings shaped in the three Greek versions of the two poems. Findings show that there is variation in the interpersonal distance between the poet and the beloved: some translators seem to emphasize bitterness and empathy on the part of the disappointed poet, while others assume more equal power distribution between the poet and the beloved