Toru Dutt | A Mon Pere | A Critical Analysis
Toru Dutt | A Mon Pere | A Critical Analysis
Toru Dutt | A Mon Pere | A Critical Analysis
‘A Mon Pere’ is a French phrase and it refers to ‘my father’ as this poem is written addressing the volume of ‘A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields’ wherein she had translated one hundred and sixty French lyrics by seventy different poets. In translating these poems from French to English, she suffered from some limitations and in this present poem, which is her own composition, she has confessed her limitation in translating the poems. Her limitation as a translator has been expressed through the symbol of a flower.
The poet Miss Toru Dutta says that the flower looks loveliest in its native soil and if its kindred plant or branch is cut or plucked off then it fades away and loses its natural grace and dye. So had happened to the translated poem by Toru Dutt. She with assiduous toil wandered from place to place in France and collected the poems and translated them into English. The poems in their original forms looked very beautiful, but in translation, they had lost their original grace and thus they had become tarnished. The poet knew better than anyone how much the translated poems lost their tender hues and how much they become dim. At last, the poet asked his father and readers that she as a translator was like a child who stammered and spoke indistinctly.
The poem ‘A Mon Pere’Â is a little poem through which the poet portrays her limitation as a translator. Truly, she tried her best in translating the French lyrics into English, yet she could not keep intact their original glow. Her comments hold good to any translated piece of literature. 0 0 0
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