The reader is left with no challenge or will to analyze, but rather handed the meaning of the poem on a silver platter. Reavey does attempt to keep some of the magic alive by including alliteration and consonance such as "human hurt," and "telephoned phrases." However, behind the literary devices and imagery that this translation presents, is lacking depth and pathos. While the poem does paint a clear picture if the girl huddled in her coat crying in the cold, the feelings associated with those images are lost in translation due to oversimplification. His word choice does not appeal to the senses or to sympathy because it feels more like reading a scientific observation of the girl rather than experiencing what she is feeling. Reavey's clear intent in this translation was to maintain as much of the original meaning as possible and not stray far from Voznesensky's original, thus failing to create a piece of literature that was as satisfying as the original. .
Different writers often interpret poems in various ways: some may get a different meaning out of it or some may not grasp the same concepts as someone else. Thus, this creates variety when reading multiple translations, because no two people's perspectives are the same, and no two people have the exact same opinions or intents. "The First Ice" is another translation, of unknown origin, of Voznesensky's poem. This particular translation differs greatly from others, mostly in pace and verse form. The setup of the poem creates a much faster pace due to the lack of stanzas or groupings of lines. Thoughts move in rapid continuation due to these single spaced short and speedy lines in which the rhythm is further quickened by the author's lack of complete sentences. "Peers out from her chilly collar, aches-blows upon her thin little paws, icicle fingers!" Many different thoughts are crammed into a few lines due to the lack of completeness which can sometimes be more challenging for the reader to understand due to the fact that one's mind does read the poem faster because of its lack of pauses.
