It has no more connection with its author from birth on and roams the world on its own.

作品一旦创作成型就和作者没有联系了,它独立的存在着。

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And one of the things one may immediately detect is whether or not the person who wrote the poem was indeed writing the poem and thought that she or he was in command, right?

一个人在阅读时很快就能发现,写这首诗的作者是否,真的是在独立作诗,认为自己对文字完全具有掌控权？

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