There's naturally a lot of pressure on Milton to make this part of the simile beautiful and striking because he's echoing not just one epic poet, but essentially he's echoing just about every epic poet.

弥尔顿自然会感受到很多压力,必须得把这个比喻写的美丽动人,因为他不仅是在模仿一个诗人，实际上每个人史诗诗人都是他模仿共鸣的对象。

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