Why can't he write love poetry, secular poetry, instead of this much more disciplined, much more difficult mode of sacred and prophetic poetry ? that he seems already to have wedded himself to?

为什么不写爱情诗，世俗的诗，而是这些， 拘束难写的庄严的充满套路的，他似乎长久以来一直都在写的诗呢？

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Guiding by the new religious view, he wrote two contradictory literary world, "sacred" and "secular" worlds, also called western world and urban world.

在这种文艺宗教观的指导下，他笔下出现了“圣”与“俗”两个相互对立的文学世界，即湘西世界和都市世界。

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In the broad sense, Benjamin made the relation between sacred history and secular history, and divided the general history into three stages: Heaven era, secular era and the Messiah era.

在广义历史上，本雅明将神圣历史与世俗历史相联结，把总体历史理解为天堂时代、世俗时代和弥赛亚时代三个阶段。

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Why can't he write love poetry, secular poetry, instead of this much more disciplined, much more difficult mode of sacred and prophetic poetry ? that he seems already to have wedded himself to?

为什么不写爱情诗，世俗的诗，而是这些,拘束难写的庄严的充满套路的,他似乎长久以来一直都在写的诗呢？

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