In "Easter, 1916" I talked about Yeats's partial, complicated identification with the suffering martyrs of that poem.

在《1916年复活节》我谈到叶芝，对受难的殉道者的同情和偏向。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Sometimes the notion is that it is just terrible for everybody with actual pain and suffering, and others have a notion of a wonderful kind of a heaven in which marvelous things happen to you, sometimes spiritual, sometimes physical depending on the religion.

有时候一些观念是很可怕的,每个人死后,都要受苦受难,而另一些观念就很美好,有一个美妙天堂,在那里你会有非凡的体验,或是精神上的,或是肉体上的,不同的宗教里说法不同

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