The nationality of that identity is important that is Yeats's Irishness and so is Yeats's audience His ambition is to become the first major Irish poet writing in English.

这种民族的认同感很重要,它关乎他的爱尔兰人特性和读者群,他的目标是成为第一个最重要的,用英语写作的爱尔兰诗人。

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Yeats, I said, wanted to speak for and to the Irish people, as well as to explain Ireland and Irishness to an English-speaking world abroad.

我认为，叶芝，想为爱尔兰人写诗，并把爱尔兰及其民族特色,介绍给整个英语世界。

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I felt we had nothing in common but "motley," our Irishness.

我和他们除了都是小丑“,都是爱尔兰人之外没什么区别。

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