The Art of Translating Poetry Between Standard & Slang Language

This book discusses the possibility of translating poetry in both slang ( Via Iraqi slang Language ) and standard Arabic language .It tackles the Iraqi poet Mothaffer Alnawab’s six selected poems ( Three poems are written in Iraqi slang language whereas the other three are written in Standard Arabic Language ) . The researchers take into consideration two types of equivalences hypothesize by Nida and Venuti ; for they – the researchers - think that these two linguists can summarize many functions of translation particularly translating poetry .