Eliot's poetry, the poetry he created out of this experience, is a poetry of spiritual agony.

艾略特的诗歌，他以自身经验写成的那些诗，是一种精神上的爆发。

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And he had a miserable life until then because he always had illnesses, some of which might be even psychosomatic. So he was the optimist and the one who lived well with the pessimist.

那之前他生活得很悲惨，因为,他总是病魔缠身，有些是精神方面的疾病,因此他属于乐观主义者,而且能够和悲观主义者相处的很好。

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