While Milton decided against writing an explicitly political nationalist poem, he did see himself as writing a poem that performed some kind of political function.

尽管弥尔顿决定要写的不是,有政治性的民族主义诗歌，他也让这首诗,发挥了一定政治作用。

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You could compare this poem to the poem placed last in Yeats's last poems called "Politics" that might seem to say something similar.

你们可以将这首诗与,叶芝诗篇的最后一首“政治“相比较“,它们可能会说一些相似的东西。

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