It's first of all a depiction of an underworld, and so it provides Milton with an important Christian representation of a hell.

它首先是对地狱的一个描述，它为弥尔顿提供了,一个重要的基督教式的地狱的描绘。

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To speak of shepherds and shepherding in a pastoral poem seems almost invariably to be a strategy or a way to speak of poets and their craft of poetry.

在田园诗里描绘牧羊人,看起来是一种固定不变的策略或者方式,用以描述诗人和他们的造诣。

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In the invocation to Book Nine of Paradise Lost, Milton describes and it's wonderful to see this representation of this process that, I think, we've been wondering about he describes the process by which the heavenly muse inspires, and he says inspires nightly, the composition of his epic.

在《失乐园》第九卷中，弥尔顿描绘了,看到弥尔顿对这一过程的描述很是奇妙，我们都对这一过程很好奇,弥尔顿描绘了天神缪斯启示他，他说是在晚上启示的，启示他写作史诗的过程。

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