But if you are right that it's a volcano image, shouldn't you nonetheless preserve the poet's choice not to say so explicitly? It would have been so easy for Rueda to be explicit, so it was a major choice of his not to be. You wouldn't translate a riddle by including the answer in explicit terms, so I'm not sure it's a good idea to supply info here that poet purposely withheld.
Last edited by Roger Slater; 06-19-2024 at 04:44 PM.
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