Gestalt closure strategies for rendering personified images of Moon, Sun, Love, and Death in poetry translation into Ukrainian

Poetry Translation and Creative Misreading—on Gopal Sukhu’s English Rendering of “Lisao”

“…In translation, the original poem only makes sense when being decoded and recoded by the translator, and the meaning of the original hinges on the psychological reaction of the translator. In poetry reading, the translator copes with meaning gaps or indeterminacies by utilizing established gestalt structures in his mind, displaying "the tendency toward a psychologically comfortable completion or closure" (Dubenko & Golubovska, 2022). Since the translator's psychological gestalt structure hardly coincides with that of the author, he naturally forms his idiosyncratic understanding on the original.…”