In the second verse paragraph, Milton tells his father: "do not despise divine poetry, creation of the prophetic bard.
在诗的第二段,弥尔顿对他父亲说:,不要轻视神圣的诗歌,诗人预示性的创作。
So this passage is extreme and Milton's poem, wonderfully, is perfectly able to identify it as such.
因此这一段诗句是很偏激的,而弥尔顿的诗恰好能够完美的辨认出这个。
Now, ancient Hebrew descriptions of Yahweh employ very similar language in the poetic passage here in Exodus 15, but also in other poetic passages.
出埃及记》15,犹太人对耶和华的描述,借用了这段诗的片段,还有其他的。
Now this allusion here in this verse epistle to his father is to a passage from the book of Revelation.
在这封给他父亲信里的诗中所含的暗示,是从《启示录》中的一段话来的。
It's an amazing passage because in a lot of ways, I think, Milton is actually directly enacting for us, the reader, the impossibility of such sweet forgetfulness.
我认为这段诗在很多方面都是令人惊叹的,弥尔顿事实上在直接为我们读者上演着,取得甜美遗忘的不可能。
And so when the figure of Orpheus appears in this poem, it's the second half of the Orpheus story that Milton is forced to tell.
因此当俄耳甫斯的形象出现在这首诗中时,弥尔顿要讲的是他生平的后一段。
So in the fourth stanza we as readers have no idea where we are or when it is the speaker of the poem imagines himself to be speaking, and it's at this point that something quite strange happens.
所以作为读者,对第四段我们不知道,自己在哪,诗的代言者在哪,什么时候想说话,而且就是在这时非常奇怪的事情发生了。
Look at the last stanza.
看这首诗的最后一段。
I don't know who came up with this statistic but I love it: nearly three out of every five lines in Paradise Lost are enjambed - they embrace the practice of enjambment. The meaning or the sense of a verse paragraph is diffused throughout a series of lines.
不知道是谁得出这个数字,但我很喜欢:,《失乐园》中将近五分之三的诗句是连结的,-它们全都连结在一起,一段诗的意思或感觉,贯穿在这段诗的一系列诗句当中。
The desire to be first is really central to this poem and it continues in this stanza: Have thou the honor first thy Lord to greet And join thy voice unto the Angel Choir, From out his secret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire.
想得第一的欲望是这首诗的主题,在这一段中也还是主题:,你要抢先,争取最初迎主的荣光,放开你的歌喉,宛若天使的合唱,接触神坛的圣火像是热烈的篇章。
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