I’m sorry if this is an inappropriate place for this question. However, after searching the net, I found no other place that I could put this question to.
I’m not someone who speaks latin, or who is currently learning it (though I’d like to start sometime in the near future). For that reason, I am trying to find someone who could help me with translating someting into latin. What I would like tanslated is an excerpt from Dylan Thomas’s poem, “Do Not Go Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”. The line from that poem which I seek translated is:
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Again if this is an inappropriate place for this question, I apologize.
I would prefer to use morior, but this is a deponent verb and making it into a gerund is beyond my skill because I’m only half way through Wheelock. (Plus I’m on winter break and I’ve been slacking off ) I’m sure someone will provide a better translation. So wait when someone else responds.
Here is my prefered (but questionable) translation:
ira, ira contra moriendum lucis.
I changed saevitia to ira because, to my ear, it mixes better with the sentence.
I think it would be better to put a few more sentences before and after that line to better understand the context of that line, so you get a better translation. Oh yes, to have a better chance of getting your latin questions answered, you should post in the main Latin forum. This place is to talk about anything in general. The poem has an interesting title …repeating not go.
Correct me if I am wrong, but “rage” looks more like a verb in that line than a noun. I would have said something like “Fure, fure contra moriendum lucis” (furite for plural).
heh heh. Thanks episcopus. Yeah that was a pure guess --assuming deponent nouns would have looked the same as regular verb nouns.
So there you have it BAH100.
If rage is more like a verb in that line, use benissimus’s translation:
Thanks episcopus. Yeah that was a pure guess --assuming deponent nouns would have looked the same as regular verb nouns.