Paraphrasis Podcast

Bonus: Spencer Lee-Lenfield on translating rhyme across languages


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What happens when you translate from a poetic tradition that sidesteps rhyme into one that can’t help but hum in iambic pentameter? Spencer weighs the trade-offs of bringing Korean free verse into rhyme-chasing English, and why the occasional slant rhyme might be a translator’s best currency.



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Paraphrasis PodcastBy Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard