Efficacy of MT on Select Telugu Poem to English: A Critical Study

Poetry is one of the most expressive forms in literature. It endures capturing the emotions, ideas and essence of life through crafting with words. In the literature, there are various poetic types or forms that writers employed over the centuries. Poetry is the oldest form with its rich history spans centuries and includes diverse styles. This research article investigates the performance of Google Translator in translating Telugu poet’s, Sri Sri’s poem “Chedu Paata”(1937) taken from Maha Prasthanam. Srirangam Srinivasa Rao is popularly known as ‘Sri Sri’ for all people. He was a great Indian progressive poet and lyricist in the Telugu literature and films. The article critically analysis the effectiveness of open Google translator in translating the select poem and focussing on language accuracy, preservation of poetic style, literary figures and figurative languages. This study evaluates detailed comparative study and examines the poetic expressions by machine translation. Part of this also discusses the challenges and limitations of the AI tool models in literary translations.