Frost as a narrator, in these great poems I'm describing, frames his people's words minimally, with few bits of narrative information.

作为一个叙事者，弗罗斯特在我所说的那些伟大的诗歌中，最低程度地用框架框住人的语言，夹杂着少许叙事的信息。

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Well, his poems themselves have an occult dimension of evoking this "great mind" and the spirits contained therein through symbols.

他的诗歌有玄秘的意境,能召唤“伟大的思想“,其中灵魂通过象征体现。

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Nonetheless, The Faerie Queenecan be said, however strangely, to be the first great poetic celebration in English of the institution of marriage.

然而无论《仙后》多么与众不同，它仍可被称为，第一部伟大的有关婚姻的,英文诗歌体盛典。

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That's not where you find the fount of the great poem.

在这些地方都找不到伟大诗歌的源泉。

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That's what I think these great fine arts do, great literature, poetry, painting, music.

我觉得这就是伟大艺术的价值,无与伦比的文学,诗歌,绘画,音乐

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It was a kind of powerful moment in American culture where the president allied himself with poetry in this way.

这在美国文化中是个伟大的时刻,这时总统用这种方法把自己和诗歌连接。

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But it's still a promise, and it's a promise of the powers of imagination and of poetry, and of poetry made out of play, of a child's play.

但始终还是一个希望，一个想象力和诗歌伟大力量的希望，这些诗是从玩中来的，从孩子们的玩耍中。

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Milton -- and we know this -- Milton was a political revolutionary, and when he anticipated writing the great poem, he consistently imagined that it would be a poem on a nationalist theme.

弥尔顿--我们知道--是个政治革命家，一直以来他所预想的这首伟大诗歌，的主题应该是民族主义的。

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But Milton portrays himself as a laborer here, a poet who by labor and intense study actually has to work to produce the great poem. Milton's divine vocation, his calling, seems in this light to be something like a vocation in the modern sense: it's a job that exacts work or labor.

但弥尔顿把他自己描绘成一个工人,一个只能通过努力学习来创作出,伟大诗歌的诗人，弥尔顿的神圣的使命，他的天职，就此而论就像现代意义上的职业了：,一份要求工作和劳动的职业。

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In this respect, he seems to have followed Spenser -- Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queeneis in large part a tribute to the sacrament of marriage, although interestingly The Faerie Queene, the great Spenserian poem, never actually manages to feature a marriage between two human beings.

这样看来，他似乎是,秉承了斯宾塞--埃德蒙·斯宾塞，他的作品《仙后》,很大程度上来说是对婚姻圣礼的颂词，尽管有趣的是，《仙后》,这一伟大的斯宾塞体诗歌，从没有真正意义上,在两人的婚姻中发挥重要作用。

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This is, I think, how we need to understand the various occult symbols in another great poem from this phase in his career, a little bit further on, "The Second Coming," on page 111.

我想这就是，我们去理解叶芝同时期另一首,伟大诗歌中神秘意象的方法，以更深刻地理解它，《第二次降临》在111页。

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