Poetic Translation: Conceptual Approach in Lina Kostenko’s Verse Wings

In the proposed scientific investigation, the role of conceptual translation in poetic discourse is revealed. The famous verse “Wings” of an outstanding Ukrainian poetess Lina Kostenko has been translated from Ukrainian into English and analyzed emerging into deep senses of the poem. The poetic translations of the verse were presented and compared taking into consideration connotative side of main verse’s elements. The works have been done by the professional translators from Ukrainian into English and the prize-winners of All Ukraine translation competition held on the base of Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University. The main conceptual components were the following: freedom, sky, heights, truth, clarity, love, devotion, truth, heaven, honor, poetry, dream. The above components helped to convey the inner meaning of the cultural phenomena into English from Ukrainian that reflected the differences and similarities in the worldview of these nations. Also the translators tried to preserve individual style of Lina Kostenko while translating the verse for making it as close as possible to the original. The suggested approach can be useful while translating text, poetic in particular, for making translation not only exact, but creative at the same time.