Roman Jakobson regards poetry as inseparable from the verbal code in which it exists. “Poetry”, says Jakobson, “by definition is untranslatable. Only creative transposition is possible.” A solution to the controversy surrounding formal versus pragmatic approaches to poetic translation seems to be “a consistent provision for a correlation of the two types of form-based and content-based equivalence.” That is what this paper sets out to trace in Amy Károlyi's Dickinson translations.