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Milton wants to write an epic that in some ways comes before, or prevents, the great epics of Homer and Virgil.
弥尔顿想写一首在某种程度上先于，荷马和维吉尔伟大史诗的史诗。
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Yeats develops this idea or develops another version of it in a somewhat earlier poem that's interesting in relation to this one.
叶芝进一步发展了这一想法,并在早期的一首诗里,写了另一个版本,那首与这首的关系很有趣。
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It's too late for this to be a political poem, but Paradise Lost is late for all sorts of reasons.
要写一首政治诗歌太晚了，但弥尔顿这么晚才写《失乐园》有多方面的原因。
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Bach wrote a mass, Mozart wrote many masses, Beethoven wrote two important masses and so on.
巴赫写过一首弥撒曲,莫扎特写过很多,贝多芬写过两首重要的弥撒曲,等等
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And the question is, as when one might read a paper one wrote six months ago or ten years ago when one was a college student, or a poem one wrote as a teenager, and looked at it and think: "Ha! Is it possible that I could have written that?".
同时，一个人可能重新阅读,六个月前，或者十年前,还是大学生时写的论文，或者青年时写的一首诗，然后问自己：,哈，这个东西是我写的么？
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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。
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I realize that I'm out of time, and so I'll begin the next lecture by talking about a poem of Yeats called "Lapis Lazuli" written in 1935, in which he talks about the way in which people who build up things that have been destroyed are always "gay."
好像时间差不多了，那么下节课一开始，我们就来,一起讨论叶芝的一首诗，名为《青金石》写于1935年，在这首诗中，叶芝写了那些重建家园,的人们，他们一直很快乐“
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He's starting to champ at the bit. He's ready to write an epic poem on much more important subjects than shepherds and shepherdesses.
他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗,写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。
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This is a poem written in the depth of the Depression and also at the height of Frost's fame.
这是一首写在经济危机时候的诗,也是在弗罗斯特最有名的时候。
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It's late for some personal reasons as well. Milton had been, as you know, anticipating writing this poem since he was at least nineteen years old.
也有一些个人原因，你们知道，弥尔顿至少在19岁的时候就想要写这样一首诗了。
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This is by far the most learned and the most demanding lyric poem that Milton writes.
这是目前为止弥尔顿所写过的,最博学读来也最吃力的一首抒情诗了。
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And so one of the things that needs to be explored here is why this poem is the last poem that Milton is not prepared to write.
这里需要研究的一点是,为什么这首是弥尔顿并未准备好就开始写的最后一首诗。
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There's also an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem and obviously this is a much more difficult feat wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that anyone had written.
我还有一种强烈的感觉,弥尔顿想让人觉得,显然这很困难,想使《圣诞清晨歌》看上去像,任何一个人写的第一首诗。
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It isn't exactly, though, the first poem that Milton wrote.
尽管说这是弥尔顿写的第一首诗不太确切。
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It's as if Milton is saying, "Look at me. I may be a poet. I may actually -I'm simply writing a pastoral poem, but I'm actually doing something in the world.
正如弥尔顿所说的，“看着我，我或许是一名诗人“,或许只是写着一首诗，但我的确在做着一些事。
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Milton clearly wants us to know that this Nativity Ode was written by a young Londoner in 1629, but it's a poem that is at the same time deliverable to the infant Christ by some extraordinary violation, of course, of all of the established laws of temporal sequence.
显然弥尔顿想让我们了解这首《圣诞清晨歌》,是在1629由一位伦敦年轻人写的，但是它同时也是一首,通过非同寻常的方法能够交到圣婴手里的诗，当然这就需要他违反现有的一系列法律。
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Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.
最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。
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In the eighteenth century, a poet named Mark Akenside wrote a long poem called The Pleasures of the Imagination, and in this poem there is the line "The great creator raised his plastic arm."
在十八世纪，一位名叫马克？阿肯赛德的诗人写了一首长诗,叫《想象的快乐》,诗中有一句是,伟大的造物主举起了他的plastic的手臂“
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In portraying the deity, I would think, if I were to write an epic poem - I would feel that I would be expected to stay within the fairly narrow parameters of religious decorum.
要表现神性，我认为，要是我要写一首史诗的话,-我肯定会觉得不能越出,宗教教义狭窄的界限。
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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》
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