"The combination of the sweep and scope of Melville's language, the beauty of the story, the depth of the characters all pushed me into a whole new realm of composing and thinking of what music is onstage."

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Student: The beauty of the language and symmetry, the sentence structure, the word choice: I guess going away from the theme, more of just the language.

语言的优美和对称，句子结构，选用的词：,我想除开主题，我更喜欢它的语言。

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I'll just tell you that Tennyson thought cellar door the two most beautiful words in the English language were "cellar door" and that audible beauty was his preoccupation in the making of poetry.

我想说的是，塔尼森认为,英语中最动人的两个词是“,这是他对于追求诗歌听觉效果的执念。

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