That's why the poem, the lyric poem, is privileged among the forms of literary discourse in the New Criticism.

这就是为什么诗，一首抒情诗，在新批评派眼里要优于其他各种文学形式。

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This is Virgil: "He should sing thin - spun lays and he should be content feeding his fat sheep."

这是维吉尔的诗：“他哀唱着纤细的抒情诗“,“喂着肥硕的羊儿，他无比满足“

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There's lyric poetry, there's love poetry, there are proverbs, there are psalms of thanksgiving and lament.

有抒情诗，有爱情诗，有谚语，有感恩，悲叹时的圣咏诗。

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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 the ode, too -- the form in which this poem is written is a pagan form invented by the Greek poet Pindar to express the sublimities of emotion arising from a contemplation of the actions of the gods.

而颂歌这首诗的形式,是由希腊抒情诗人品达尔发明,来抒发从思考上帝的行为中,得到的崇高情感。

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And as in all of these early lyrics, Jove conventionally throughout the Renaissance is used as a name within these classical fictions to signify the Christian God.

在早期的抒情诗里，贯穿文艺复兴的始终,丘比特在传统意义上意在，在众多的古典神话中,使上帝意象化，符号化。

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Virgil would go on to be a great epic poet but not until after he had written these pastoral eclogues and then after that, after he had written the georgic poems, only then does he write finally the great epic poem The Aeneid.

他会成为一个伟大的史诗家,但这一直到他写出这些抒情诗之后,在那之后，在他完成了那些田园诗篇之后，直到那时他才最终完成了史诗。

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He's finished. He has completed this lyric poem.

他已经结束了，已经完成了这首抒情诗。

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Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

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