Another way into this problem: let's look at the comments that Dr. Johnson made about Milton's Lycidas in the eighteenth century.
看这个问题的另一个角度:让我们看看,约翰逊博士在18世纪队弥尔顿的《利西达斯》所做的评论。
You can see on the handout those poems by those classical authors that Milton's Lycidas is most indebted to.
讲义上有这些经典作者的经典诗作,弥尔顿的《利西达斯》是受这些诗作的启发写成的。
Six years later when Milton writes Lycidas, he's employing the same fiction of unreadiness and filled with all of the same anxiety of under-preparedness.
六年后弥尔顿写《利西达斯》的时候,表现的还是这种未准备好的状态,充满了同样的为薄发而厚积时的焦躁。
As in Sonnet Seven, Milton writes the first verse paragraph of this great poem, Lycidas -- the first fourteen lines - in essentially the form of a sonnet.
如同《十四行诗第七首》,弥尔顿写《利西达斯》,这首伟大的诗的开头--头14行时,-用的还是十四行诗的形式。
You can figure Milton asking in this poem Lycidas if it's true: is it true what the Elder Brother said, ? that virtue is always rewarded and evil punished?
可以看出在《利西达斯》中弥尔顿是在问:,《科玛斯》中哥哥所说的,善有善报恶有恶报是真的么?
To the extent that Lycidas' body has been recovered, that it's been redeemed, Milton is able -- perhaps successfully, Milton is able to justify the ways of God to men.
利西达斯的身体最终愈合了,被救赎了,这样弥尔顿就得以--或许是成功的,证明了上帝待人之法。
Lycidas' death -- remember this is the poem that Milton didn't want to write, he was "forc'd" to write it -Lycidas' death allows the uncouth swain to grow up and to move on.
利西达斯的死-记住这是一首,弥尔顿并不想完成的诗,他是被迫的,使得这个粗鄙的年轻人能够成长并继续前进。
In Lycidas Milton doesn't let himself, thank God, go quite so far as he does in this amazing ending to "Damon's Epitaph."
感谢上帝,在《利西达斯》中,弥尔顿做的不像,他在《达蒙的墓志铭》的结尾那样过火“
And as if that weren't terrible enough a realization, he goes on to envision an even more grotesque end for Lycidas' body.
似乎这还不够可怕,弥尔顿又进一步给利西达斯的尸体想象了更加怪诞的结局。
It's as if Lycidas has died so that Milton could live to become a great poet.
似乎利西达斯依然死去,因此弥尔顿才得以继续存活,并成为一个伟大的诗人。
Lycidas' untimely death seems to enable Milton to master his own fears of untimeliness.
利西达斯不合时宜的死亡似乎,使得弥尔顿能够掌握他自己对于不合时宜的恐惧。
The body of Lycidas, even in death, is of an unusual interest to our poet.
利西达斯的身体,即使死了,对弥尔顿来说也很重要。
No sooner has the speaker asked this question -- and you see this rhythm, this dynamic, appear continually throughout Lycidas - he asks the question, and then immediately he acknowledges the inadequacy of the question.
刚问完这个问题--这种节奏,这种动态是贯穿《利西达斯》始终的,-刚问完这个问题,弥尔顿又立即承认了,这个问题是不适当的。
Milton's Lycidas' body is still in some way a physical one.
弥尔顿所写的利西达斯的身体仍然是物质的,具体的。
I'm hoping that it feels a little strange to you and it seems strange, I think, when you consider what is obviously here the Christian context of Milton's Lycidas.
我希望你们会觉得这有些奇怪,考虑到弥尔顿写《利西达斯》时的基督教背景,这就显得很奇怪了。
This letter was written at nearly the same time that Milton was writing Lycidas.
这封信几乎是弥尔顿写,《利西达斯》同时期写的。
It's 1637, later that same year, that Milton writes Lycidas.
也是在1637年,晚些时候,弥尔顿写了《利西达斯》
This really provides the central rhetorical base for Milton's Lycidas.
这为弥尔顿的《利西达斯》提供了行文基调。
Look at line 183. Milton imagines Lycidas in heaven now.
看一下183行,弥尔顿想象着利西达斯身在天堂。
Milton's nearly twenty-nine years old when he writes Lycidas.
写《利西达斯》的时候弥尔顿将近29岁了。
Now readers have always seemed to have agreed that Milton's Lycidas is an enormously admirable poem, but for a few hundred years now there has been a controversy over how admirable Milton's Lycidas is, specifically as an elegy.
现在读者们一致认为,弥尔顿的《利西达斯》是一首极其非凡的诗作,但是几百年来,对于这首诗,特别是作为一首悼亡诗,到底有多么非凡一直有所争论。
Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... Milton is lamenting, once again, that Milton has been compelled to begin writing.
因为亲友的惨遇,痛苦的重压,迫使我前来扰乱你正茂的年华:,利西达斯死了,死于峥嵘岁月。,弥尔顿再一次哀叹道,他是不得以写这首诗的。
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