The thematic problems that Milton is attempting to tackle are written into the very grammar and the syntax of the poem.

弥尔顿想要处理的主题,就在诗歌的语法和句子结构里边。

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The drive to include the world--Moore's omnivorous poems claim for poetry all the subjects that she mentions here and indeed many, many more.

在穆尔涉及广泛的诗篇中蕴藏着包含万物的动机,向她提及的诗歌的所有主题发出了声明,而且实际上比此更甚。

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What exactly that purgation will entail and why Milton's voice needs to be purged at all I think these questions are really the subject of the entire rest of the poem.

这种净化是很有必要的,弥尔顿的语言为什么需要被完全净化,我认为这个问题才是所有剩余诗歌,真正的主题。

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Milton's subject in his first English poem is -- we can guess it it's his future literary career.

弥尔顿在他的第一首英语诗歌里的主题，我们可以猜一下,是他将来的文学事业。

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Milton -- and we know this -- Milton was a political revolutionary, and when he anticipated writing the great poem, he consistently imagined that it would be a poem on a nationalist theme.

弥尔顿--我们知道--是个政治革命家，一直以来他所预想的这首伟大诗歌，的主题应该是民族主义的。

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Now in the first original poem that Milton wrote in English, titled "At a Vacation Exercise," Milton and you will come to recognize this as so unbelievably Miltonic Milton doesn't write about love or about death or about any of the subjects that typically engage the youngest practitioners of poetry.

现在，在弥尔顿的英语诗歌中，第一首原创诗的名字叫做假日练习,弥尔顿和你们都将认为这是难以置信的弥尔顿风格的诗,他没有写爱或死亡,或者任何,常常吸引年轻诗歌创作者的主题。

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This is impressive: he dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, and he did so to take laboring jobs, each time enacting a conflict between intellectual life and manual labor that would be a persistent and central theme of his poetry.

令人印象深刻的是，他从,达特茅斯学院和哈佛大学都辍学了,来劳作，每一次都在,脑力劳动和体力劳动间发生矛盾,这也是他的诗歌的核心主题。

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