And in any event, our primary concern is with the program of the texts as they stand before us: is there a symbolism operating here?

无论如何，我们主要关心的，是摆在我们眼前的,这些计划大纲：存在象征主义吗？

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But by the time Milton begins writing his epic, he abandons his plan for a nationalistic poem, a nationalist poem, and decides instead to use the subject matter that he had been intending for that prospective tragedy, Paradise Lost.

当弥尔顿开始写史诗的时候，他放弃了原来写民族主义诗歌的计划，转而决定用他本来打算写的悲剧,《失乐园》的主题。

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