The image of a poet interrupted and chided by the god of poetry comes straight out of the opening of Virgil's Sixth Eclogue.

这段诗人被神明打断斥责的场景,直接明了地出现在维吉尔的里。

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In a sense it is an image of the English countryside at a moment in which it is being emptied out, its young men sent to France to die, a kind of no man's land already.

某种意义上它是英国乡村的写照,在一个被清空的时刻，年轻的男人被送到法国受死，已经是没有人的土地。

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Out of the wound are dug "ribs of gold." The image that seems initially negative begins to resemble something, I think, quite important and quite beautiful. I'm thinking here of the creation of Eve.

从伤口处挖出了黄金的肋骨，这景象,首先带给人以负面的遐想，我认为这是十分重要的,及十分美丽的，这让我想到了夏娃的诞生。

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