Todas Ibamos a ser reinas
We were all suppose to be queens
We were all suppose to be queens
Of four kingdoms by the sea
Soledad with Efigenia
And Lucila with Rosalie
In the Valley of Elqui, encircled
By a hundred mountains or more,
Like offerings or tributes
Burning of red and saffron
We talked of it, thrilled
And we truly believed
That we would all be queens
And we would reach the sea
With the braids of a little girl
And gowns of pastel cotton
Chasing flyaway birds
Under the shade of the fig blossom
The four kingdoms, we said,
Would be so vast and praiseworthy
That as certain as the Koran,
They would reach the sea.
We would marry four husbands,
At the time when we should wed
And they would be kings and poets
Like David, king of Judea
And our kingdoms would be vast,
And they would have, without a doubt,
Green seas, seafoam seas,
And the fairy-like pheasants
And it would have every fruit imaginable
A milk tree, and a bread tree,
We wouldn't cut the guayacan tree
Nor would we bite the metal
We were all going to be queens,
And really reign;
But none of us became a queen
Not en Arauco, not even in Copan
Rosalie kissed a sailor
Who was married to the sea
And in the Guaitecas, the kisser
Was taken by a storm
Soledad raised seven brothers
And left her blood in the bread,
And her eyes fell black
For never have seen the sea
In the vineyards of Montegrande,
With its pure golden gulf
She rocks the children of other queens
Having never rocked her own
Efigencia met a foreigner
In her way, and without a word,
Chased after him, without knowing his
name,
Because the man looked like the sea
And Lucila, who talked to rivers,
mountains, and the beds of reed,
In the moons of her craziness,
Her true kingdom she received
In the clouds she has counted ten children
And in her bad luck, her crown,
In the rivers she has seen her husbands
And in the storm, her gown
But in the valley of Elqui, where
There are hundred mountains or more
The women that came sung
And those that come will sing:
In the earth we will be queens,
And truly we will reign.
And being so vast our kingdoms,
The sea we will attain.
 Mi experiencia a traducir el poema Todas bamos ser reinas era muy divertida y ms
difcil que imagin. Yo encontr que necesitaba buscar muchas palabras que ya saba su
significado pero no pude expresarlo en una manera clara o concisa; adems, lo que me
sorprendi era al buscar el significado de una palabra que pens que ya saba y encontrar que
lleva otros significados adems de lo que pens, por ejemplo, cuando busque loca encontr
que tambin quiere decir fairy o queen no solo crazy. En mi proceso de traducir, intent
escoger palabras que comunicarn el sentido de la nostalgia y el perdido de lo que nunca tuvo
para mantener el tono del poema original y a veces necesitaba cambiar la forma de verbo, por
ejemplo, traducir eran como would be para mantener este tono. Tambin, me di cuenta que
no pude siempre traducirlo palabra por palabra, sino muchas veces necesitaba ser traducido
sentido por sentido y en algunos casos cambi palabras como mares de alga (seaweed) a
sea of seafoam porque creo el imagen de seafoam es ms lindo en ingls que sea of
seaweed. Me gust que este poema no tena una esquema de rima, sino en el ltimo verso e
intent preservar este rima porque era una cancin. Era muy difcil obtener una rima en ingls
que comunic el mismo sentido y necesitaba buscar por muchos tesauros hasta encontr
attain que rima con reign, no es una rima perfecta pero funciona aqu. Sent tan buena por
crear una rima que intent hacer esto con algunos otros versos y era exitosa pero necesitaba
reorganizar el verso a veces para obtenerla. En el fin, me gust la experiencia de traducir un
poema y creo que al traducirlo y escudriarlo, me ayud entender el poema mejor.