Now this allusion here in this verse epistle to his father is to a passage from the book of Revelation.

在这封给他父亲信里的诗中所含的暗示,是从《启示录》中的一段话来的。

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His verse actually had a physical impact on the world.

他的诗句能对外界产生具体的影响。

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In the second verse paragraph, Milton tells his father: "do not despise divine poetry, creation of the prophetic bard.

在诗的第二段，弥尔顿对他父亲说：,不要轻视神圣的诗歌，诗人预示性的创作。

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Milton wrote his epic in lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter or what we call, and what Milton would have called, blank verse.

弥尔顿的史诗由不押韵的抑扬格五音步诗句写成,我们，还有弥尔顿都称其为无韵诗。

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So Milton imagined that his own verse was to be read and experienced something like a body.

因此弥尔顿想让人们把他的诗句,当做是肉体去阅读和体验。

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Milton naturally wrote his friend letters in impeccable Latin verse, and this one he seems to have composed almost immediately after having written, having completed,the Nativity Ode.

弥尔顿用毫无瑕疵的拉丁文很自然的给朋友写信，而且这首诗,是在弥尔顿一写完《圣诞清晨歌》,就拿去排版的。

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