These are primal forms of play, if you like, ; that suggest forms of poetic activity; also, spiritual activity.

这是玩最原始的形式，如果你愿意，这种形式显示出了诗歌活动的形式;,还有精神活动。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Whatever else it may be, everyone's always agreed that modern poetry is difficult. You will probably too.

不管是什么，每个人都会赞成,现代诗歌是艰深的，你或许也会认同这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So the satisfactions of the moment are for Milton deferred here; and it's something like a recognizable process of deferral and postponement that you will see beginning to form themselves at the very center of Milton's poetic imagination.

因此对这一时刻的满意就是因为弥尔顿把它推迟到这;,而且就像一个可以察觉的推迟过程,从一开始你就会看到这些推迟是顺其自然的,这在弥尔顿的诗歌想象中可以看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He also mentioned a poemby Rudyard Kipling called If. I didn't recognize what he was referring to immediately but I looked it up and it's a famous poem that you must have seen written in 1910 an inspirational poem.

他同时也提到了拉迪亚德？吉卜林的一首诗歌,名字叫做《如果》，我当时并没有迅速反应出,他到底指的是哪首诗，但是之后我查了一下发现,它是一首你肯定见过的著名的诗歌,写于1910年，一首启发性的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You are really out on a limb - if you're going to defend poetry--as Richards kept doing-- as "pseudo-statement," but of course pseudo-statement" is just another expression for what he calls here "fiction."

你会陷入孤立无援的境地,如果你像，Richards一样-,说诗歌是“伪陈述“,当然，这里“伪陈述“只是,“虚构“的另一种说法“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is the English translation because the poem is in Latin: Because you loved the blush of modesty and a stainless youth and because you did not taste the delight of the marriage-bed, lo! the rewards of virginity are reserved for you.

诗是用拉丁文写的，这是英文翻译：,诗歌大意：，你爱羞怯的脸红和无瑕的青春,未品尝过婚床上的欢愉，瞧！，你将因这贞洁获得奖赏。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's a kind of picture for me of the linguistic environment, if you will, of modern poetry.

对我来说，如果你愿意这样想的话，这就是现代诗歌语言环境的一幅图画。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选