You have the image of the cutting off, the castration, of the power of generativity. All poetic potency, all power to assert oneself in the world, can be severed and that's it.

有阉割，切除繁殖能力的，的形象，诗人的所有能力，所有能居于世上的力量都可以被剥夺，就是这样。

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It's just a very different way of imagining oneself.

这是一种对画中人的不同隐射

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Satan finds it ignominious and shameful to lower himself to God, to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee and deify His power, but this kind of submission is shameful not because it's simply always shameful so to debase oneself.

撒旦认为对上帝放低身段，屈膝承欢，并认可他的力量实在是可耻的，但是这种屈从之所以是耻辱,并非是因为通常身段被贬低时会感到耻辱。

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