Quest for Form. The international conference of the series "Poetry Translation – Negotiating of Imagination"

languages and paradigms of imagination that is visible in the poetic form too. The

determinants of form are not only the metre factors but also polysemiotic influences.

1. Realization of the historical metrical arrangement (metrum, rythm, rhyme, homophony,

onomatopoeias) – question concerning anachronic, and its modern character.

2. Intersemiotic character of the translation – music/ performance (poem musicality, graphical

quest, visuality, concrete poetry).

3. Metaphor – the metaphor contextualization as an instrument of the historical poetics, the

redefinition attempt, a quest for metaphorical equivalence in the translation.

4.The influence of context on the poetic form of the translation – the quest for the

domestication, the antique paradigms, the quest for the role of the title, the motto, the

quotation; the evaluation of the reception status and its influence on the form – the reception

role of the poetry, intertextuality.