I am not convinced that the poem's radical and most subversive and most exquisite rhetorical effects, these amazing similes, present us with anything like a simple and unambiguous religious message.

我并不认为诗中最极端最颠覆,即那些令人惊叹的比喻，给我们提供了,非常简单明了的宗教寓意。

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