Thought I'd share the translation of a famous German poem, Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher from Der Struwwelpeter, that I did for my art and theory of translation course. Creepy stuff.
The Story of the Thumb Sucker
“Conrad!” said his mother dear,
“I’ll go out and you’ll stay here.”
You behave and don’t complain,
‘Til I come on home again.
But most of all, listen up!
Your thumb is not a thing to suck;
For the cutter with his shears,
Who so rapidly appears,
He’ll slice your thumbs right off
As if they’re but paper stuff.
When mother then did go away,
Thumb in mouth, he did not obey.
Whoosh! The doors burst opened wide,
And dashing in with sudden stride,
The Cutter in such zealous joy
Sprang upon the thumb-sucking boy.
Such pain! Shears that snip and snap,
Oh! Those sharp, enormous shears
Sliced off his thumbs with a clap!
“Ow!” yelled Conrad through the tears.
When mother came home once more,
There stood sad Conrad by the door.
Without thumbs he looked so glum;
Thumbless, but less troublesome.
5 comments:
WOW.
That'll learn him?!
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