Ono no Komachi translations
These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi…
Submit to you, is that what you advise?
The way the ripples do
whenever ill winds arise?
―Ono no Komachi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Watching wan moonlight flooding tree limbs,
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These are modern English translations of poems written in German by Bertolt Brecht, who fled Nazi Germany along with Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and many other German intellectuals. Thus Bertolt Brecht was writing from bitter real-life experience.
The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
......
These are modern English translations of poems written in German by Bertolt Brecht, who fled Nazi Germany along with Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and many other German intellectuals. Thus Bertolt Brecht was writing from bitter real-life experience.
The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
......
Ono no Komachi translations
These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi…
Submit to you, is that what you advise?
The way the ripples do
whenever ill winds arise?
―Ono no Komachi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Watching wan moonlight flooding tree limbs,
......