I like it because it's a kind of image of the modern city that makes the modern city look like language, look like letters, look like a kind of scattered alphabet, a kind of babble.

我喜欢它是因为它呈现出了一幅现代城市的图画,使得城市看起来像语言一样，像字母一样，像打乱分散的字母表一样，像模糊不清的牙牙耳语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But what we have here is an image of the beauty of that change, the beauty of the fact that the leaves are falling.

但是我们看到的是一幅美丽的变化的图像，叶子在飘落带来的美丽图画。

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It's a kind of picture for me of the linguistic environment, if you will, of modern poetry.

对我来说，如果你愿意这样想的话，这就是现代诗歌语言环境的一幅图画。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In other words, if you look too closely at a picture or if you stand too far away from it you don't see it clearly it's out of focus but if you achieve just the right distance from it, it comes into focus.

换句话说，如果你站得离一幅图画太近,或太远都无法看清它,它在焦距之外,但是如果你站在合适的位置上，焦距就对准了，画就清晰了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The first paper is going to ask you to write about one short poem; the second will ask you to write about two or more poems, or poems perhaps by two authors, or perhaps a poem and some other kind of text or image.

第一篇论文会要求你们介绍一篇短诗;,另一篇则是要求描述几首诗，或者是任意两位作者的诗，又或者是一首诗以及一篇课文或者一幅图画。

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