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Unread 08-06-2022, 03:37 PM
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Default Pushkin is better than an Iced Caramel Macchiato

I feel pretty sheepish about posting in Accomplished Members, but I owe it to Pushkin. My translation of “The Wagon of Life” is up for viewing:
https://www.betterthanstarbucks.org/poetry-translations
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Unread 08-09-2022, 02:29 PM
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Congratulations to both you and to Pushkin!

I enjoyed the poem - the metaphor and the way you're using contemporary cursing to drive home (bad pun) the idea of different types of speech for each age.

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Unread 08-09-2022, 03:19 PM
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Thank you, Sarah-Jane. Pushkin did use the f-word in this poem—knowing full well that it would have to be edited out for publication—but I suppose “get f-ing going” would indeed have sounded strange to Lord Byron.

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