從詞義連貫，隱喻連貫與意象聚焦看詩歌意境之“出”: 以李商隱《夜雨寄北》詩及其英譯為例

This paper discusses how a poetic world is cunjured up in literary translation.Following a brief overview of sense and sense-making with reference to cohesion,coherence and intertextuality,it offers a word-by-word close analysis of a classical Chinese poem,Ye Yu Ji Bei by Li Shangyin,charting the text’s semantic coherence and mapping its metaphorical coherence in terms of ontological metaphors.Using the poem as a case example,the paper examines(1)the way to evoke a poetic world sustained by both semantic and metaphorical coherence,(2)the focalization of imagery through an interplay among individual images,and(3)the significance of a focal image for the profiling,and by extension the translation,of a poetic text.