TRANSLATION OF SIMILE IN MODERN BRITISH POETRY INTO RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article reviews the concept of comparison as a tool for creating images in poetic works, ways of its expression in the text and its translation. The material for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of simile was the poetic works of contemporary British authors and their literary translations into Russian. The article attempts to classify the results of the translation of similes into Russian in accordance with the level of consistency of the translation with the original. It is shown that only 11% of similes are preserved in translation structurally and semantically as a result of literal translation, 19% are saved in a modified form due to transformations, 23% of similes turn into metaphors fully or partially preserving the original image. In 47% of the cases considered, the images of the original texts are abandoned with the loss of comparative constructions expressing them, which, among other things, may indicate differences in artistic and figurative thinking and a significant difference in the cultural code of our countries.