Word usage in poetry

[milo]

An honest question... 
where does this leave translations? 

A single word may simultaneously rhyme, carry the meter, contribute to a motif and make an allusion. Is it even possible to translate every word when each of those words is, quite rightly. multitasking?

I think this is an excellent question.  In many ways, a translation ends up being a new poem.  I have read multiple translations of the same poem and hated one and loved another.  You can see in the poem of the day threads, there was one that completely ignored a word that was obviously SUPER important to the author's intent.  Does that mean the translated poem didn't work?  Actually it was still pretty good but it was completely missing a valuable character trait and an allusion that the reader of the translated poem would just never get.

It really is significant