Yeats is obviously writing in the context of an Irish civil war, but it's also the case that he's writing in the shadow of the First World War as well.

叶芝显然是在爱尔兰国内战争时期进行创作的，但是同时他也是在,一战的阴影下写的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And then try to build creatively on something that has really happened.

然后试着基于已发生的事情进行创作。

灵感从何处来 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Now not only does Phoebus Apollo make a sudden appearance, but he seems actually to interrupt the speaker of the poem in order to correct him.

不仅是他的登场让人措手不及，他似乎也打断了诗歌创作者的叙述,以此来对他进行纠正。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There are many other instances of this myth-making imagination that Yeats is always working with.

还有很多这样叶芝用想象力,进行神话创作的的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Later writers take this poetic image and fill out the allusion to - drowning in this ancient song, and compose the prose accounts in Exodus 14, in which the metaphor is literalized.

随后，作者利用这个场景,用这个古老的歌谣进行影射，创作了这一段白话诗,《出埃及记》14，在这段文字中的暗喻被文学化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I don't know exactly how you work.

我不知道您是怎样进行创作的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

What good is it -- you'll remember -- what good is it, Milton asks, ; "to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade"; that's, of course, the vocation of poetry if that shepherd-poet is just going to be struck down in his prime as Edward King had been?

大家可以看到，弥尔顿在这里发出了疑问，“进行平凡微不足道的诗歌创作“，又有何益;,当然，就田园诗人而言，诗歌的天命,是否在于如同爱德华金一般的英年早逝？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It will mean reading a lot of poems and writing about them some.

就是通过阅读一些诗并动手去进行创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选