Now, in writing in these genres, Milton is, of course, confronted with a dilemma. He's a humanist scholar.

当然，弥尔顿用这种风格来写，就会面临一种窘境，他是一位人文主义学者。

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He began, almost at the same time as the war began, to write poems.

在战争刚刚开始的时候他就开始写诗。

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And he began to write back, first to his fiancee who quickly became his wife, Mary, and he was really worried about all the slaves he owned.

随后他就开始写回信,首先给他的未婚妻玛丽,不久便结婚了,并且他对他所拥有的奴隶充满忧虑

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And then he hears the coup de grace, it's the shots, one after another, and then he sees a priest staggering out, overwhelmed by it all, and then he moves onto something else.

接下来他就听见了那致命的声响,枪声,一声接着一声,之后他看见惊魂未定的牧师踉跄而出,然后他就调转笔锋写其它事情去了

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Now when Milton publishes this poem, he makes it clear that it was written at age nineteen.

那时当弥尔顿要出版诗歌的时候，他就清楚自己是在19岁时写的。

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Anything he writes is going to be forced, compelled - and with his forced fingers rude he violates the formal prosodic, the metrical, scheme of his elegy at its very opening.

他写什么都是被迫的，不得已而为之的,-用他这粗鲁的手指，他在这悼亡诗的一开头，就没能遵守写诗的韵律规范。

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