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The Daltaí Boards » Archive: 1999-2004 » 2002 (January-June) » Can you translate this for me? from the poem Achill « Previous Next »

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MyTh ()
Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 02:47 am:   Edit Post Print Post

this quote is from the irish ( i think) Derek Mahon

im chanoaí uaigneach nach mór go bhfeicim an lá

thanx alot if u can translate this

Ben from Jakarata Internationl School, Indoneisa

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Aonghus
Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 03:51 am:   Edit Post Print Post

caonaí is a person on there own, uaigneach is very lonely

Taking just this snippet, I'm not sure I'll get the poets intention.

I would understand it to mean
I am a very lonely, solitary person,

nach mór go bhfeicim an lá is ambiguous, it could either mean I won't survive until the dawn, or I'm longing for the dawn.

Reading the poem which I found here
http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1154
I think the second is probably more correct.

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MyTh ()
Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 04:35 am:   Edit Post Print Post

Thanx a bunch really appreciate it!

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