Novels and poems are read in a prescribed temporal sequence, whereas a picture has no clear place at which to start viewing, or at which to finish.

人们会按既定的时间顺序阅读小说和诗歌，但一幅画却没有明确的让人开始或结束欣赏的地方。

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By the end of the next academic year, she had sold more poems, earned additional prizes, and written her long paper for English honors on the double personality in Dostoyevski's novels.

之后那年的年底，她卖了更多的诗，拿到了更多的奖项，还完成了关于陀思妥耶夫斯基小说中双重人格的英语文学毕业论文。

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Right from movies and novels to poems and songs, love is by far the most popular subject in the world and creative people seldom think twice before flirting with it.

从电影、小说到诗、歌，爱情是世界上最受欢迎的主题。当陷入其中时，有创造性的人几乎很少三思。

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Over a period of more than half a century, Bukowski, who was born in Germany and brought to America at the age of three, chronicled, in poems and novels, his life as a drifter and a drunk as he lurched through the mean streets of Los Angeles.

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But he continued to write and his novels, poems and essays and in his later years he was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government.

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In a market economy they find it harder to get their novels and poems published than they ever did during the communist era.

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