Here, as elsewhere in Yeats' poetry, it's not essential for you to be able to pursue his occult learning and decode his symbols in order to read his poetry.

这首诗还有他的其他诗里，研究他的神秘主义学习,和解释这些象征对读他的诗,来说不是很重要。

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Yeats saw history in symbolic and mystical terms.

他以象征主义和神秘主义看历史。

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Yeats was trained in the occult disciplines of Theosophy and Gnosticism. Those traditions merge in his early work with European symbolism, and also with Irish cultural nationalism.

叶芝曾受到通神论和诺斯替教,神秘主义教条的训练，这些传统,在他早期作品中与欧洲象征主义，和爱尔兰文化民族主义结合。

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