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The Question and Answer section for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Translating any poetic works from a different language is an extremely difficult process. How do you find the right translated words to have the same feeling and symbolic resonance as the original words. Language can be very subtle with different...
I'm sorry, this is a short-answer forum designed for text specific questions. We are unable to summarize or paraphrase for students.
Throughout the poem, Fitzgerald translates Khayyam's words in a way that clearly distance them from the belief that there is an afterlife. The narrator of the poem urges the audience to not get caught up in thoughts on what might be, but rather...
