If we want to think of it in the more familiar domestic context, Milton has to begin a career that could please both himself and his father Now last time I mentioned the dramatic structure of this poem.

如果我们想更贴切的了解的话，弥尔顿不得不从事一项能使他自己和他父亲都满意的职业,我现在最后一次提及这首诗的戏剧性结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You remember he's written his father in "Ad Patrem" that the trade, the vocation of poetry -- it may be homely and slighted in his father's eyes, but it was of course worth all of Milton's time, all of Milton's uncessant care and investment.

他在写给父亲的Ad，Patrem中说，写诗这个职业在父亲看来或许,简单无趣，却值得弥尔顿付出所有的时间，精力，和投资。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选