y task, and it follows on from the primary task of reading. (Bassnett 66)¡± The translator is the writer who writes according to what he has read. His translation is to give a ¡°hereafter life¡± to the source text. The ¡°writerly task¡± is a challenging one. Usually the excellent poetry translators are themselves poets. Their contribution to the widespread of the original poems is great. The British poet Edward FitzGerald is such a person. If it were not for him, the Persian poet Omar Khayyam would not be so well known no matter how brilliant his poems are. The English version of The Rubaiyat he translated is said not a translation in real sense. However, the aesthetic value of the original poems is successfully transplanted into English, which should be ascribed to FitzGerald¡¯s skillful rewriting. Another example is about Ezra Pound who translated the Chinese poems by Li Po, the great poet in Tang dynasty. Knowing nothing about Chinese, he translated these poems according to the reading notes of a Japanese scholar. His translation of course is limited, sometimes even astray far from the original, yet the main characteristic of Chinese poetry, that is, the abundant images, is transferred to the ST readers. And this has had no sm
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