That's why the poem, the lyric poem, is privileged among the forms of literary discourse in the New Criticism.

这就是为什么诗，一首抒情诗，在新批评派眼里要优于其他各种文学形式。

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This was an act of compulsion, and the poet had to be forced to press this lyric out of himself.

这是一个强迫性的行为,诗人被迫绞尽脑汁写出这首诗来。

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There's lyric poetry, there's love poetry, there are proverbs, there are psalms of thanksgiving and lament.

有抒情诗，有爱情诗，有谚语，有感恩，悲叹时的圣咏诗。

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And Joe Jackson had this song which had the lyric, like, you can't get what you want unless you know what you want.

杰克森有句歌词这么写的,汝欲求之,必先知之

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This is by far the most learned and the most demanding lyric poem that Milton writes.

这是目前为止弥尔顿所写过的,最博学读来也最吃力的一首抒情诗了。

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He's finished. He has completed this lyric poem.

他已经结束了，已经完成了这首抒情诗。

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Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

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