66. Sone veya Sonnet 66: Karşılaştırmalı Bir Çeviri Analizi

As a branch of General Literature Science, ‘Comparative Literature’ comprises of the comparisons and contrasts between two literary texts written in different languages. The aim of analysis, based on comparisons, is to determine the common or similar elements of two texts in terms of style, motif or theme. In order to understand the literary texts, stylistics and the analysis of linguistic codes in literary texts are one of the most essential tools that provide the reader understanding of a texts. Within Comparative Literature, the significance of translation is undeniable and comparing a text with its translation is within the scope of comparative studies. A comparative translation sample, which explores the similarities and differences between a poem and its translated version, constitutes the core of this study. Within this scope, in this study, William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 66 and Can Yucel’s translation and interpretation of the poem titled as 66. Sone were analysed to examine how the poem was translated in terms of Katharina Reiss’s content based (inhaltsbetont) translation model.