The hay, that is, well, what? The payoff, what the poem is all about, what mowing is all about.

这堆草又是什么呢，是成果，诗歌的成果，割草的结果。

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That is to say, we're going to focus on the question of what a poem is, and the question "What criteria should we invoke in order to read it for the best and correctly?"

换句话说，我们将把注意力集中在,“什么是诗歌“,和“为了读懂诗歌,我们需要具备哪些素质“的问题上“

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Whatever else it may be, everyone's always agreed that modern poetry is difficult. You will probably too.

不管是什么，每个人都会赞成,现代诗歌是艰深的，你或许也会认同这点。

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So, we need to take a look at the question of what they are, and how we know about them, and so on.

那么,我们得了解什么是诗歌,如何学习研究诗歌,等等

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We all know what "to die" means in early modern poems.

我们都知道早期现代诗歌中，“去死“这两个字是什么意思。

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Yeats's career is maybe the most famous one in modern poetry that is, a career that has been seen as a kind of representative story about modern poetry as a whole. What's that story?

叶芝的事业在现代诗歌史上,也许是最著名的,他的事业被认为是,代表了现代诗歌整个历程,那这个历程是什么呢？

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You can see that when Wimsatt and Beardsley talk about the "success" of the poem, they understand the whole critical enterprise, - including its theoretical underpinnings-- the question of what is a poem, - the question of how should we best read it-- to be still geared toward literary evaluation.

大家应该发现，当文萨特与比尔兹利谈到,诗歌创作的“成功“一词时，他们完全理解了文学评论体系，这包括适用于文学评估的理论根基-,就是那些关于什么是诗歌，还有我们如何解读的问题-,这些都对文学评估很重要。

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