And this poem seemed like one you might find and be able to read yourself, without me there to explain it.
而这首诗似乎是一首,你们自己就可以读懂的,不用我多做解释的诗。
Milton wants to write an epic that in some ways comes before, or prevents, the great epics of Homer and Virgil.
弥尔顿想写一首在某种程度上先于,荷马和维吉尔伟大史诗的史诗。
So we're talking about a poem being able to sustain itself in the world to be equal to the world.
因此,一首高贵的诗歌能够,在这个世界中维持自我并与这个世界媲美。
Let me conclude by just pointing to another poem, a late poem, "Directive," a poem published in 1947.
让我们看看另一首诗来作为结尾吧,一首晚期的诗,1947年发表的“指令“
This doesn't look forward to Humbert's poem; it already is a poem and it is a poem to the crazed, aroused mind of Humbert.
不期待亨伯特自己的诗,它已经是一首,让其疯狂,引其深思的诗。
So what I'd like to do now is focus on a piece that emphasizes--foregrounds-- just the first axis, pitch.
那么现在我要做的是集中精力于一首乐曲,它所强调的,突出的,只是这第一维,音高
Sort of as a reflection on these same ideas, you get the famous poem of Wallace Stevens.
作为对这些相同观点的反思,我们来看一首来自华莱士?史蒂文斯的非常有名的诗。
But, I also read a poem, and this is kind of a signature-- not my signature, but the kind of course it is.
不过我还读了一首诗,算是一种签名,不是我的签名,是这种课程的
I've been doing this for many years, and all of a sudden comes a sonnet.
我在这方面做了很多年,所有的一切就像一首十四行诗。
Now, one of the things the Greeks believed, as we discover from a poem written by one of their major poets, is something so far as I know unique to the Greeks.
在希腊的一位大诗人的一首诗中,我们发现了他们所信奉的一件事情,据我所知,这一点是希腊所特有的
This intensely intimate focus on the human body is out of place in a Christian elegy and this, of course, Milton knows.
这对人类肉体的极端关注在一首基督教悼亡诗中,是不合时宜的,弥尔顿当然知道这点。
Now the subject matter that he's chosen for this poem, for this so-called first poem, couldn't possibly be more appropriate.
现在他选这首诗的主题很重要,这所谓第一首诗可能不太恰当。
Both Guillory and Angus Fletcher are examining the troubled relation of Milton to one of his favorite poets.
无论是古伊洛还是安格斯弗莱彻,他们都在研究弥尔顿最爱的一首诗中和他相关的问题。
Yeats develops this idea or develops another version of it in a somewhat earlier poem that's interesting in relation to this one.
叶芝进一步发展了这一想法,并在早期的一首诗里,写了另一个版本,那首与这首的关系很有趣。
It is, well, it's a great poem. There are lots of them that when I first started teaching this course I decided I wouldn't teach.
它是一首伟大的诗,有很多诗都是,我开始教这门课的时候就决定不去说这首诗。
Now The Wasteland was the first poem to have footnotes, and you have to ask yourself: what do you have to think the poem is in order to think that it needs footnotes?
荒原》是第一首有脚注的诗歌,所以你们需要问问自己:,这首诗究竟有什么特别,而使得它必须要有脚注呢?
Well, a movement is simply an independent piece, that works oftentimes-- if there arre multiple movements in a symphony or concerto-- works with other movements.
简单来说,乐章就是些各自独立的篇章,在一首交响曲或协奏曲内,和其他的乐章和谐统一
And the question is, as when one might read a paper one wrote six months ago or ten years ago when one was a college student, or a poem one wrote as a teenager, and looked at it and think: "Ha! Is it possible that I could have written that?".
同时,一个人可能重新阅读,六个月前,或者十年前,还是大学生时写的论文,或者青年时写的一首诗,然后问自己:,哈,这个东西是我写的么?
All of this has to be yoked together in the imagery of a good poem, particularly of a metaphysical poem, and this model of complexity is what matters both for modern literature and for literary criticism.
一首好诗,的应该融合这些意象,尤其一首玄学诗,同时,这种复杂性,在现代文学,和文学批评中都十分重要。
You have just one of them in your Anthology, but it is one of the greatest. It is back on page 130.
你们选集里只有一首,但是是最好的之一,在130页。
Here is, in this poem, an example of irony, of a really comparatively simple kind.
这里有一首诗,就是讽刺的手法,是一首相对简单的手法。
The second section runs from stanzas nine through seventeen, and it characterizes the song that the heavenly choir sings at the moment of the Nativity.
第二部分从第九行到第十七行,这一部分展示了基督降生时天国的唱诗班,唱了一首什么样的歌。
And so one of the things that needs to be explored here is why this poem is the last poem that Milton is not prepared to write.
这里需要研究的一点是,为什么这首是弥尔顿并未准备好就开始写的最后一首诗。
And the boy dies. It's an extraordinarily powerful poem.
小男孩死了,这是一首很震撼人的诗歌。
Lycidas' death -- remember this is the poem that Milton didn't want to write, he was "forc'd" to write it -Lycidas' death allows the uncouth swain to grow up and to move on.
利西达斯的死-记住这是一首,弥尔顿并不想完成的诗,他是被迫的,使得这个粗鄙的年轻人能够成长并继续前进。
You could compare this poem to the poem placed last in Yeats's last poems called "Politics" that might seem to say something similar.
你们可以将这首诗与,叶芝诗篇的最后一首“政治“相比较“,它们可能会说一些相似的东西。
Also, in a very different mood, the poem "For Once, Then, Something."
还有另一首完全不同的情绪的诗,“只一次,便成永远“
In a number of ways, it's both a first poem and it's a poem about firsts.
在许多方面,它既是第一首诗,也是关于第一的一首诗。
But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.
但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。
Hardy wants to use really old dialect words, when he can, and there's power in that. And this is a poem composed in 1915.
哈迪在他可以的时候总是想使用真正的古代方言,而在其中是有力量的,这是一首在1915年作的诗。
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