Yes, Barthes talks about the death of the author, but even Barthes doesn't mean that the author is dead like Nietzsche's God. The author is there, sure.

是的，巴尔特谈到了作者已死的问题，但和尼采所说的上帝已死这个层面上的内容还是有所不同,作者肯定就在那里。

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And I'm going to focus my attention on what you might call the political side of that society as it reveals itself in the poems.

现在我要重点阐述可能被你们称作,社会的政治层面的史诗内容

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