Poetry is, in Frost, an encounter between fact and desire: what we want and what is.

诗歌，对弗罗斯特来说，是一种事实和渴望的相遇：,我们想要的和它本身。

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So, in a way, by longing to be where they were when they were children, by longing to inhabit that time, as well, he wants to become them.

所以，他用一种方式去怀念，渴望去这群人还是孩子时，生活过的地方，渴望经历那种时光，也渴望成为他们之一。

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This is ambition for a career, but it's also a desire for personal autonomy. For Frost, poetry is invested with a longing for autonomy in, well, both simple and complex senses.

这是事业心，也是一种,个人自由的渴望，对他来说，诗歌是,结合了自由的渴望，呈现出一种既简单又复杂的感觉。

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Both of these empires had aspired to a kind of universality.

这两个帝国,都渴望一种普遍性。

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And I would suggest to you that the consumption of home is driven by a certain kind of desire as well, that desire to move up in the American class structure: "the first electric refrigerator in my family."

而我的看法是对家的消耗,也是由一种特定的渴望驱动的，这种渴望上升到美国的阶级结构：,“我们家的第一台电冰箱“

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