I see this as a course that's an introduction to the literature of a period, to modern poetry.

我觉得，这只是一门引导性课程,引导大家关注某一时期的文学创作和现代诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Another key event in the making of modernism is the great migration of African-Americans from the rural south to the urban north.

现代创作的另一个重要事件,是非裔美籍从南部乡下,往城市化的北部的大移民。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

At the same time, I do mean to give you some sense of the period in which they're writing, some sense of modernism as a field, as one of the richest fields in English language writing.

同时，我也会给你们提供一些背景知识,来了解作者创作的年代，以及现代主义的思想领域，就其作为英语文学创作最丰富的领域之一而言。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选