The fisherman is also representative of the Irish peasantry to whom Yeats turns in scorn of the urban audience that he had tried to write for in the theater.

渔夫还代表了爱尔兰农民,他们是叶芝的新读众,叶芝此前鄙视并最终抛弃了,他曾尝试为之写作的城市读众。

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