Poetic intonation and translation (with the analysis of Anna Akhmatova's poem "It is simple, it is clear..." and its English version by Richard McKane)
The article deals with the role of intonation in a poetic text. In the beginning of the 20th century intonation started to play the leading role in Russian poetry while the traditional means of poetic text organisation were losing their relevance. The analysis of Akhmatova's poem "It is simple" and its translation into English by Richard McKane shows what changes tend to happen with the intonation of the original and how they affect the meaning.