If the meaning is not clear in the poem, we judge the poem a failure.

如果诗歌的意思表达不明确，那么它就称不上是首好诗。

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Okay. That is Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven, and do you know the name of the piece?

好的,就是贝多芬,路德维希·凡·贝多芬,那么你知道这首曲子的名字吗

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I realize that I'm out of time, and so I'll begin the next lecture by talking about a poem of Yeats called "Lapis Lazuli" written in 1935, in which he talks about the way in which people who build up things that have been destroyed are always "gay."

好像时间差不多了，那么下节课一开始，我们就来,一起讨论叶芝的一首诗，名为《青金石》写于1935年，在这首诗中，叶芝写了那些重建家园,的人们，他们一直很快乐“

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So, we start out here with an opening phrase.

那么,我们从首句开始

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So, what happens here is this opening phrase, that we'll call A-- musicians like to label stuff just with alphabetical labels to keep it simple.

那么,首句这里,我们称作A,音乐家喜欢用字母,来做标记,这样比较简单

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