Poetry Assignment Reflection Post

In translating the literal meaning of each word instead of taking the poem as a whole and translating it poeticaly I transformed a beautiful poem into meaningless babble. To correctly translate anything you need to understand not only the words of a language but the grammatical structure and the nuances of the language. Each language in the world has infinite complexity that sometimes not even native speakers fully understand. I have the upmost respect for those that study other languages and take on the task on bringing world literature to the masses.