Translation

Translation: Lorca's "I Have Shut My Balcony"

From the Casida of Weeping

Mar 18 • Joffre Swait

Translation: Seneca's Thyestes, ll. 51-57

With some poetic license, entitled "Vacante Dextera: Megaera's Impatience"

Feb 22 • Joffre Swait

Translation: Two Pablo Neruda Poems

Translations of "Birth" and "My First Trip", from the Pablo Neruda collection "Where the Rain Is Born".

Dec 27, 2025 • Joffre Swait

Translation: Construção by Chico Buarque

Fun with adjectives.

Jul 23, 2025 • Joffre Swait

Poem Translation: Christmas Poem by Vinicius de Moraes

"There is not much to say..."

May 27, 2025 • Joffre Swait

Translation: Saudade

My translation of a Mark Rico poem from English into Portuguese, in both languages entitled "Saudade".

Apr 10, 2025 • Joffre Swait

Trees: A Spanish Translation Exercise

The poetry of trees as life and death, expressed in a worksheet

Jan 30, 2025 • Joffre Swait

Poem Translation: Navigator by Paulo César Pinheiro

A restless navigator is my heart...

Jan 20, 2025 • Joffre Swait

Ophelia of Denmark

A translation of Miguel de Unamuno's brief poem

Jan 8, 2025 • Joffre Swait

Marcela at Chrysostom’s Funeral

A new translation and versification of Marcela's funeral oration from Don Quixote.

Aug 21, 2024 • Joffre Swait

Marcela's Speech in Don Quixote: Introduction and Translation

for beauty in an honest woman is like a distant fire or a sharp sword

Jul 16, 2024 • Joffre Swait

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