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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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》
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。
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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