The poet Wallace Stevens puts it beautifully when he says that poetry should make the visible a little hard to see; in other words it should be a defamiliarizing of that which has become too familiar.
诗人华莱士,史蒂文斯在解释这点时说得很漂亮,他说,诗应给能见之物涂上一点朦胧的色彩,换句话说,诗应将熟悉的事物陌生化。
I don't know if you've been to Bath. But it's very nice, but a bit boring and small.
我不知道你去过巴斯没有。那里非常漂亮,只是有一点无聊,而且那里很小。
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