To speak of shepherds and shepherding in a pastoral poem seems almost invariably to be a strategy or a way to speak of poets and their craft of poetry.

在田园诗里描绘牧羊人,看起来是一种固定不变的策略或者方式,用以描述诗人和他们的造诣。

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It's as if Milton is saying, "Look at me. I may be a poet. I may actually -I'm simply writing a pastoral poem, but I'm actually doing something in the world.

正如弥尔顿所说的，“看着我，我或许是一名诗人“,或许只是写着一首诗，但我的确在做着一些事。

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The speech of Saint Peter seems, I think, in a lot of ways to be a lot more like a fire and brimstone sermon than it is a passage in a pastoral poem.

我认为圣彼得的演说，在很多方面似乎很像是一场关于炼狱磨难的布道,而不是田园诗中的一段。

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When we consider the particular circumstances that occasioned the poem Lycidas, we can see why Milton, I think, chose this pastoral form.

当我们把引发的创作的,特有的情况考虑进去，我们可以发现弥尔顿选择这种田园诗派的原因。

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It's a poem deeply invested in the tradition of pastoral poetry, pastoral poetry from Theocritus and Virgil onward.

这是一首深深植根于从忒俄克里托斯和维吉尔时代，不断发展而来的田园诗的传统中的诗。

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Milton was the only Cambridge poet to honor Edward King in that memorial anthology by writing a poem in the pastoral mode.

弥尔顿是那本纪念诗选里唯一一个,写田园诗追悼爱德华金的剑桥诗人。

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Now in Virgil's early poem, the Sixth Eclogue, the speaker explains that the writing of pastoral poetry is the stuff that young poets do.

在维吉尔早期的诗篇里，诗人解释道,田园诗歌的创作是年轻诗人的必经之路。

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Certainly, it stands far outside the generally pastoral framework of the poem.

当然，它所要表达的,比诗歌的大体轮廓多得多。

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The very mention of Saint Peter naturally violates the classical, pastoral fiction of the poem.

对圣彼得的提及自然而然触犯了，这首诗的田园古典的基调。

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