Now, that's actually a difficult question to ask-- to answer for a child, but I tried my best to give him an answer.

向一个孩子解释这个问题其实挺困难的，但我还是尽力给了他一个答案。

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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。

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And, he says, give me a model for this.

然后他又说，给我一个解释这些数据的模型。

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