Focusing specifically on the poem (yùjiēyuàn) – The Jewel Stairs Grievance, translated by Ezra Pound – by the classical Chinese poet Li Bai (701- 762), this research, situated within the field of translation studies, unfolds through two interconnected avenues: first, I conduct an analysis of the Chinese poem, drawing on interpretations proposed by António Graça de Abreu (n.d.), Cristiano Mahaut de Barros Barreto (2011), and Ricardo Primo Portugal and Tan Xiao (2019), and then contrast them with my readings of a set of translations of the poem into English and Portuguese – particularly focusing on those by Ezra Pound and Haroldo de Campos – aiming at a critical examination of the various translation choices at play. In the second part, grounded in an exploration of the silence I infer from the original text, I engage in experimental translation exercises, justifying my choices according to the identified and prioritized characteristics in the first part of the study. The research reflects on contemporary paths of experimentation in translation, with a focus on classical Chinese poetry, especially the concise style known as (juéjù).