And this is related to Yeats's idea that the poet and this is something he wrote about in the prose that the poet is more type than man.

这和叶芝关于诗人的观点,他在一篇散文里提到的,诗人更多是形象而不是个人。

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Eliot was there, in that essay on the metaphysical poets that I'm quoting from, defending as necessary what is the primary characteristic, not only of his own poetry, but really of modern poetry generally, what is often called its difficulty.

艾略特在描写那些抽象派诗人的文章里,就是我引用的那篇，极力维护,诗人的首要特征，不仅是因为他自身的诗性，更因为维护现代诗歌的必要，这是非常困难的一件事。

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And while it would be ridiculous for us to read the entire mask as the poet's own completely unfettered autobiographical fantasy, a Miltonic set of interests and a Miltonic set of anxieties charging and fueling this work.

虽然要我们读完整篇文章有点荒谬,因为诗人的自传幻想太无拘无束了，这个作品有弥尔顿式的嗜好,和弥尔顿式的焦虑控诉及刺激因素。

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