Finally, I think it can be said that it's a poem whose deepest investmentis actually in Milton's mastery over the entire Western tradition of literature.

最后，我要说的是,这是一首弥尔顿对自身对于现代文学传统的,写作技巧苦心经营的诗。

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And so one of the things that needs to be explored here is why this poem is the last poem that Milton is not prepared to write.

这里需要研究的一点是,为什么这首是弥尔顿并未准备好就开始写的最后一首诗。

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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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I'd like to do one last piece.

我来讲解最后一首乐曲

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Maybe he thought of that because it's really a poem seems to be a poem of advice for young people because it ends up the last line is ? do you know the last line?

也许他是因为它真的是一首诗歌才想起它,似乎是一首对年轻人忠告的诗歌,因为它以最后一句结尾,你们知道最后一句是什么吗？

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Now, Ludwig van Beethoven was in his fifties when he was working on his last symphony-- what would prove to be his last symphony-- his Ninth Symphony, and he'd been tinkering with this particular melody all the way back to probably 1803, so it's about twenty years or so.

路德维希·凡·贝多芬在五十多岁时,创作了他最后一首交响乐,后来成为他最后的交响曲,就是他的第九交响曲,他一直在锤炼这段旋律,也许要追溯到一八零三年,所以大概经历了二十个年头

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Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

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