In fact nowhere else do we see Milton literally bursting out at the seams as he seems to in this poem.

其实弥尔顿在别处也没有,像在这首诗中一样离经叛道，完全爆发。

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But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.

但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。

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Now, he hasn't yet settled on the topic of the Fall, the fall of Adam and Eve from their place of bliss in the Garden of Eden.

现在他还没有定下《降临》这首诗的主题，亚当和夏娃从伊甸园这个极乐的地方降临人间。

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There is in Frost no God, no transcendental source of guidance or consolation, nothing out there in the world but the material conditions of our circumstances.

在弗罗斯特的诗里，没有上帝，没有卓越的指引和安慰，这个世界里什么都没有,除了我们生活环境的物质条件。

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He isn't really interested in the unity of "the poem."

他对“诗“本身的一致性没有兴趣“

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He also mentioned a poemby Rudyard Kipling called If. I didn't recognize what he was referring to immediately but I looked it up and it's a famous poem that you must have seen written in 1910 an inspirational poem.

他同时也提到了拉迪亚德？吉卜林的一首诗歌,名字叫做《如果》，我当时并没有迅速反应出,他到底指的是哪首诗，但是之后我查了一下发现,它是一首你肯定见过的著名的诗歌,写于1910年，一首启发性的诗。

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Knowing what iambic pentameter is, is not a gift of birth, but rather something that comes through a little bit of practice, which means we have to work at it a little bit.

没有谁是生来就知道抑扬五音步格诗，是需要努力才能知道的，这说明我们必须在这个上面花点功夫。

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It's a longish poem, not in your anthology, but you can find it in The Complete Yeats, and I've given you on this handout page just a couple stanzas from it, so you have a sense of it.

这是一首很长的诗，你们的选集里没有，但在叶芝全集里可以找到，我给你们发的材料上就有,只是其中的几节，你们可以大概有个了解。

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It's a good question, and I think it still stands unresolved in the general understanding of this poem.

这是很好的问题，在这首诗的大体理解上而言,还并没有得到解决。

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In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

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Now in the first original poem that Milton wrote in English, titled "At a Vacation Exercise," Milton and you will come to recognize this as so unbelievably Miltonic Milton doesn't write about love or about death or about any of the subjects that typically engage the youngest practitioners of poetry.

现在，在弥尔顿的英语诗歌中，第一首原创诗的名字叫做假日练习,弥尔顿和你们都将认为这是难以置信的弥尔顿风格的诗,他没有写爱或死亡,或者任何,常常吸引年轻诗歌创作者的主题。

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