In the second verse paragraph, Milton tells his father: "do not despise divine poetry, creation of the prophetic bard.
在诗的第二段,弥尔顿对他父亲说:,不要轻视神圣的诗歌,诗人预示性的创作。
I see this as a course that's an introduction to the literature of a period, to modern poetry.
我觉得,这只是一门引导性课程,引导大家关注某一时期的文学创作和现代诗歌。
We have a strained image of the composition of the poem at its very outset and we have an image of someone writing as if he were participating in a race.
如果一开始我们就对诗歌的创作有一种不友善的印象,那么我们就会对诗人有一种印象,就好像他正在参加一场竞赛。
It's based on the ancient form of Japanese poetry, which is something that I had never tried myself.
这些诗是根据日本古代诗歌形式创作的,我自己都从没试过。
in fact I want to use the word stitched together, because in the Ancient Greek world the people who sang, recited, created the poems of the Homeric epics were called rhapsodes, and that means stitchers of songs.
事实上,我想使用"串联"这个词,因为在古希腊,那些歌唱,朗诵,和创作《荷马史诗》的人,被称为吟诵者,就是说把诗歌串联在一起传唱
You can see that when Wimsatt and Beardsley talk about the "success" of the poem, they understand the whole critical enterprise, - including its theoretical underpinnings-- the question of what is a poem, - the question of how should we best read it-- to be still geared toward literary evaluation.
大家应该发现,当文萨特与比尔兹利谈到,诗歌创作的“成功“一词时,他们完全理解了文学评论体系,这包括适用于文学评估的理论根基-,就是那些关于什么是诗歌,还有我们如何解读的问题-,这些都对文学评估很重要。
Now in Virgil's early poem, the Sixth Eclogue, the speaker explains that the writing of pastoral poetry is the stuff that young poets do.
在维吉尔早期的诗篇里,诗人解释道,田园诗歌的创作是年轻诗人的必经之路。
Now not only does Phoebus Apollo make a sudden appearance, but he seems actually to interrupt the speaker of the poem in order to correct him.
不仅是他的登场让人措手不及,他似乎也打断了诗歌创作者的叙述,以此来对他进行纠正。
And that is, in fact, one of the important points of departure for this poem.
其实这就是,这也是他诗歌创作的一种尝试。
What good is it -- you'll remember -- what good is it, Milton asks, ; "to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade"; that's, of course, the vocation of poetry if that shepherd-poet is just going to be struck down in his prime as Edward King had been?
大家可以看到,弥尔顿在这里发出了疑问,“进行平凡微不足道的诗歌创作“,又有何益;,当然,就田园诗人而言,诗歌的天命,是否在于如同爱德华金一般的英年早逝?
Instead, things in Frost are "made" in the sense of "constructed."
相反,弗罗斯特是以一种建造观来创作诗歌的“
Milton needs to imagine the narrative of the Creation as if the narration itself were taking place in the beginning, as if poetic creation could be a first in the same radical way that the creation of entire universe is obviously a first.
弥尔顿想象的对上帝创造万物的讲述,与上帝创造万物一样发生在太初之时,诗歌创作与整个宇宙的创造,都发生在太初之时。
It's not until Book Three of Paradise Lost that the poet explicitly reveals to us, to his readers, the fact of the physical handicap that might reasonably be thought to render impossible his composition of the poem.
直到失乐园第三卷,诗人才明确告诉读者们,自己失明的事实,这可能被合理的认为是他无法完成诗歌创作的原因。
And I can only assume that that is precisely the point, that Milton would -- later in 1667 when Paradise Lost is published, he would make his poem canonical just like The Iliad and just like The Odyssey and The Aeneid before anyone had actually read it.
我只能假设就是为了这点,当他在1667年出版《失乐园》后,弥尔顿会遵照《伊利亚特》的模式来创作诗歌,还有《奥德赛》和《埃涅阿斯纪》,在这之前人们还没有真正的读过这些书。
Hesiod, whom I have not mentioned to you before, a poet who we think to have lived around 700 B.C., very early in the history of the polis, wrote one of his poems called, Works and Days.
赫西奥德,我之前跟你们提到过的,是一个生活在公元七百年左右的诗人,那还是在城邦历史的初期,创作了一首名为《工作与时日》的诗歌
It's an allusion that has everything to do with Milton's own sense of his unreadiness, and I'm thinking of that. Oh, it's just -- it's wonderful, that strange moment that happens fairly early on in the poem.
这是一个和弥尔顿自身的迟疑感,息息相关的幻想,我认为,就诗歌创作的早期而言,这是非常美妙的。
It's an extraordinarily dark way to characterize the composition and the process of the poem.
这样来界定创作诗歌的过程,是一种非常不好的方式。
He kept himself solitary and chaste. He devoted himself to poetry.
他过着孤独朴素的生活,致力于诗歌创作。
Now in the first original poem that Milton wrote in English, titled "At a Vacation Exercise," Milton and you will come to recognize this as so unbelievably Miltonic Milton doesn't write about love or about death or about any of the subjects that typically engage the youngest practitioners of poetry.
现在,在弥尔顿的英语诗歌中,第一首原创诗的名字叫做假日练习,弥尔顿和你们都将认为这是难以置信的弥尔顿风格的诗,他没有写爱或死亡,或者任何,常常吸引年轻诗歌创作者的主题。
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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