When asked whether all texts are translatable, Roman Jakobson answered: “yes, to a certain extent” (qtd. in Hatim and Munday 16). Poetry in particular is notoriously difficult to translate due to its complexity and intricacies of form and meaning, on the one hand, and its cultural features, on the other. Over the years, poetry translation has been the key topic in many studies and articles that pinpoint concrete issues that may assist the translator during the three main stages of the translation process: source text analysis, linguistic transfer, and target text assessment. The present article tackles the issue of the translatability of Edgar Allan Poe’s