Yeats seems to be reversing this trick in "The Fisherman," seems to be converting myth back into reality the ideal object of desire from a glimmering girl back into a trout.

叶芝好像在渔夫一诗里,颠倒了这一转变“,好象是把神话转回现实,欲望的理想载体从,若隐若现的姑娘变成了鳟鱼。

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