Аннотация
Poetry translation is one of the most problematic forms of translation and therefore has specific requirements to address. The purpose of this article is to investigate the translation strategies and techniques applied to poetic texts by professional translators and researchers. A qualitative descriptive research method is followed to provide a brief overview of these translation instruments. This research method enables qualitative data collection with credible and unbiased information. The findings were three commonly used translation strategies and three classifications of translation techniques used by researchers from all over the world for literary translation. These results demonstrated the vast diversity in the usage of strategies and techniques for the translation of poetic texts.