Теодор Рётке. Летучая мышь

Валентин, даже если автор оригинала имел ввиду что-то другое, ваша разгадка этого ребуса и ваш перевод мне  нравятся больше, чем варианты с причесывающейся человекообразной летучей мышью )).

Валентин, очень здорово! Интересно! Я тут переводил параллельно ещё одно ст-ние Рётке и был больше сфокусирован на нём. А это перевёл по наитию. Screen был у меня вариантом телеэкрана. но я не додумал эту идею так как ты, - уж слишком текст был "в сторону". Но мысль твоя в самом деле оригинальная. Вот несколько ссылок с анализом. Там не всё однозначно - разные трактовки. В последней (третьей) ссылке есть "более поздний" вариант трактовки связывающий с Голливудом. Но выводы всё равно разные. В общем попробуй, почитай:

The Bat by T. Roethke. Analysis 

http://renasaplit.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-bat-by-theodore-roethke-poetry.html

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… A key to understanding the structure of the poem is that there are many images which refers to human suggestion rather than objective reality:
- "By day the bat is cousin to the mouse."
meaning that from our point of view they behave the same (hiding).

-"His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead." of course the bat is sleeping, but our suggestion tells us he seems to be dead.

- "He loops in crazy figures half the night" the bat is hunting insects, but from our point of view it is only looping crazily.

These verses give more power to the conclusive suggestion, meaning that despite we know that the face of a bat does not resemble a human face, if our mind suggests this comparison we can't help to feel uncomfortable because it conveys an image outside our logic, "for something is amiss or out of place, when mice with wings can wear a human face.".

http://poeticppl.blogspot.com/2010/01/bat-by-theodore-roethke.html 

  Written by Theodore Roethke, "The Bat" is a poem which conveys a message about the real fear of humans through its metaphors and a storytelling tone. Throughout this poem, "the bat" acts as a metaphor which represents "the unknown". To accomplish this, the speaker portrays the bat as a confusing and creepy creature as it is a "cousin to the mouse" and one that likes the "attic of an aging house". The creature is unpredictable and acts in a way that humans find scary during the night. When people see unfamiliar scenes, like a bat who "brushes up against a screen", "we are afraid of what our eyes have seen". This is not saying in the literal sense that humans are scared of bats in general but instead, this idea suggests that when something unexpected or unfamiliar happens, humans become the most fearful. The last line of the poem which says that something is "amiss or out of place when mice with wings can wear a human face", adds on to the message of this poem, explaining that perhaps what humans are most scared of is the ability for other humans to be so unpredictable.By comparing the bat to the unknown and then in the last stanza, to the unpredictability of humans, Theodore Reothke relays a message of truth to the readers which is that the things that are unfamiliar to us are the things that scare us most.

 Здесь особенно! интересно - 

https://newyorkessays.com/essay-commentary-on-the-bat-by-roethke/

Рифмы у Вас хорошие, подобные оригиналу. Но зачем ломать размер. То 6-стопный ямб, то 5-стопный. Хотя в оригинале обычный 5-стопный ямб, которым написана большая часть английской поэзии.