He says, "Poetry in our own time-- -- such is the complexity of the world we live in-- must be difficult."

他写道，“我们这一时代的诗-,正如我们生活着的世界-,让人费解“

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For most readers in Milton's time, rhyme was actually constitutive of poetry, and Milton's lines of unrhymed verse here may well have not seemed poetry at all. It was shocking.

对大部分弥尔顿时期的读者来说，押韵是,诗歌的组成部分，弥尔顿这不押韵的诗句,很可能看起来根本不是诗，它令人震惊。

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This way of teaching did not perhaps quite so much for a variety of reasons permeate public school literature teaching, but it was simply, as a result of Understanding Poetry, the way to go. It took time.

尽管这种教学方法可能并没有大范围被应用于,公立学校的文学专业，但是它的确符合教育的发展趋向，这也还得归功于《诗歌鉴赏》，它确实需要更多时间。

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