Although translation is currently greatly assisted by AI, especially in translating old Indonesian literary works into English, the translation process still requires a human touch because it is closely related to the equivalence of feelings and impressions. The feeling obtained when read by the source language reader must be the same as the reader of the target language translation because it is the main essence in written translation. This research is a case study of the written translation of the literary work entitled Harimau! Harimau! with research subjects of students in translation classes in semesters 5 and 7 at a university in Yogyakarta, which aims at describing students’ errors in translating texts with poetic nuances with figurative language from Indonesian to English. This research seeks in what way students would simplify and adjust when translating those kinds of poetic nuances in sentences. This research applies a descriptive qualitative method to examine respondents’ translations referring to Newmark’s (1988) Translation Objectives: ecology, material culture, social culture, organizations and customs, and gesture and habits.
Andi Dian Rahmawan (Thu,) studied this question.