"I therefore believe that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is not broken.

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One consequence of this view is that for Yeats history starts to look like a poem, or it starts to conform to laws of poetic imagination or of tragedy, if you like, of myth.

这导致了,叶芝的历史观诗化了，或说是符合悲剧中,诗意想象的规律了，也可以说，神秘主义了。

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