ABSTRACT
After the Cultural Revolution, there was a sharp increase in the theoretical discussion and creative writing of the new metrical poetry. Since then, many personal anthologies of sonnets have been published. There are also some poetry anthologies that include sonnets. Among faithfulness, expressiveness, and elegance, the faithfulness is central, dominant and essential. In a similar vein, in the triple standard of human life: truth, goodness, and beauty, truth is essential. Its intension is goodness and its extension beauty. Without truth, goodness and beauty can’t exist. Faithfulness is like the truth. Expressiveness and elegance are its two extensions. Without faithfulness, there is no expressiveness and elegance. Without expressiveness, there is no faithfulness, either. It’s a fact that ideology influences the selection of the source texts and translation strategies. The middle 1950s was a honeymoon period between China and the Soviet Union, and so was also a golden period of publishing the translations of Russian-Soviet literature.
