Orpheus had provided Milton with a paradigm of the poet, the poet whose discipline and whose abstinence nourished and strengthened his poetry.

俄耳甫斯在弥尔顿看来是诗人的模范,他严于律己，节制禁欲，让诗作更加出色。

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In fact, love and desire are really at the center of Frost's poetry.

事实上爱和欲望是他诗作的中心。

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Milton, who is writing at the present moment of December of 1629, is claiming the capacity to arrive at a moment in history that he has already described as a long-completed one.

这首诗作于1629年12月，这时弥尔顿正在慢慢具备他达到历史性时刻的能力,而这时他也已经被这样称赞着。

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His poetic talent, his poetic promise, his poetic ripeness - it hasn't yet burgeoned or made itself manifest.

他的写诗才华，写诗的抱负，诗作的成熟度,-都还没能彰显出来。

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After he'd published all of his major poems, he began publishing a spate of works that attempted to re-create British culture from the ground up.

在发表了他的所有主要诗作后，他开始大量发表其他著作,试图以这些作品完全重建英国文化。

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He's not yet up to the task of a great poem yet.

他还不能担当写出伟大诗作的重任。

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For next time, make sure that you will have read at the very least Milton's great poem, and he wrote it when he was only twenty-one years old, "The Ode on Christ's Nativity."

下一讲，同学们至少要读完,弥尔顿的一首伟大诗作，他写这首诗时才21岁，《基督降生颂歌》

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From Milton's first major poem, the Nativity Ode.

他第一首重要诗作《降生颂歌》中看出来。

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Milton's own faculty of memory - this is the idea that I'm going to be floating here - seems to provide something like, or pose a stumbling block or an obstacle for, his attempt to write an original, divinely inspired poem.

在这里我想说,弥尔顿自己的记忆系统,似乎想提供某种东西，或者想在他写出一部原创的，伟大的诗作的尝试上设置一个障碍。

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