Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.