The similes are for him instrument in the poem's larger agenda to reinforce our faith in the coexistence of free will and divine providence -- difficult, huge concepts.

这些比喻在这首诗更深的议程中是作为工具,来深化我们对自由意志和神圣天命的共存,所持的信念--这是两个艰深宏大的概念。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It suggests both the difference between the earlier Yeats and the middle Yeats, but also importantly the kinds of continuity between them the ways in which Yeats remained very much the same poet.

这首诗表明了叶芝,早期和中期作品的差别，但很重要的是这两个时期,存在着一种延续性,叶芝作为诗人基本还是那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now readers have always seemed to have agreed that Milton's Lycidas is an enormously admirable poem, but for a few hundred years now there has been a controversy over how admirable Milton's Lycidas is, specifically as an elegy.

现在读者们一致认为,弥尔顿的《利西达斯》是一首极其非凡的诗作，但是几百年来，对于这首诗，特别是作为一首悼亡诗,到底有多么非凡一直有所争论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选