Simple observation reveals that each language and each culture enjoys specific linguistic features and rhetorical traditions. In poetry translation difference and the resultant linguistic tension create a gap between Source Language and Target language, a gap that needs to be bridged by creating an approximation processed through the translator's interpretation. The existentialist thrust behind this position supersedes equivalence and disallows "intervention", since in producing his/her pre-dictionary self-attributed translation, the poetry translator works from within the first person domain, a theoretical construct which is assumed to handle Davidson's first person authority and more. Translating Herbert's "Even-Song" requires knowledge of Arabic Islamic discourse and the ability to create, via interpretation, the right angle that allows Herbert's deep religious experience and voice to be heard in a discourse that relates Arab audience to English religious devotion to God, a devotion which lies well beyond tension and cultural difference.