Some of these terms that he uses are literary climax, the creation of suspense so he's tracking this as if it were the development of a narrative.

用文学语言来概括的话就是,“高潮“制造悬念,书中的陈述不断进行。

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Milton needs to imagine the narrative of the Creation as if the narration itself were taking place in the beginning, as if poetic creation could be a first in the same radical way that the creation of entire universe is obviously a first.

弥尔顿想象的对上帝创造万物的讲述,与上帝创造万物一样发生在太初之时，诗歌创作与整个宇宙的创造,都发生在太初之时。

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