口头诗歌不仅仅是一种讲述美好或重要故事的方式，也不只是一种展现想象力的方式。

Oral poetry was not simply a way of telling lovely or important stories, or of flexing the imagination.

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帕里发现了伍德和沃尔夫忽略的东西：诗歌本身被口头传递的证据就在其文本中。

Parry had discovered what Wood and Wolf had missed: the evidence that the poems had been transmitted orally was right there in the text itself.

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传统的五行打油诗可以看作是民间诗歌，这种打油诗通常内容粗俗，所以仅仅流传于口头。

The traditional limerick, which is usually and hence circulated orally, could be considered folk poetry.

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There's an extraordinary sense of verbal chaos, a kind of word hoard that modern poetry and modernism -generally, a kind of linguistic environment of great complexity from which modern poetry and modernism emerge.

这里关于口头言论的混乱有一种独特的理解，关于现代诗歌和现代性的隐藏理解,总之，是一种关于语言环境的庞大复杂性的理解,现代诗歌和现代性即是由此产生发展。

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