It suggests both the difference between the earlier Yeats and the middle Yeats, but also importantly the kinds of continuity between them the ways in which Yeats remained very much the same poet.

这首诗表明了叶芝,早期和中期作品的差别，但很重要的是这两个时期,存在着一种延续性,叶芝作为诗人基本还是那样。

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They also, like J, want to assert a continuity, but in doing so, they do it in a way that really ultimately draws attention to the fundamental discontinuity, the sense of a new beginning.

他们也像J来源一样想保持一种统一延续性，虽这样做，他们却用了不同的方式,此方法最后却将人们的注意力吸引于非延续性，一种新的开始。

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In any case, Yeats was on the other side of the controversy and insisted, after all, that there is a continuing role for art, as indeed, on the other hand, there may well be even in such times.

不管怎么说，Yeats都不是保守派,他还认为，艺术具有延续性，实际上，另一方面。

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