This is Lena Reyna reading part of her winning poem, "The Weight of Words in Reverse."

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So when I'm writing the poem, when the poem is writing itself through me, at its best, I'm reading it; it is reading me.

所以，我在写诗时，或者说，当诗在通过我创造自己时，我在读诗，诗也在读我。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's so amazing it can be equally surprising the poem to the person who was writing it and to the reading it.

真的是太奇妙了，一首诗可能,对作者和读者来说都是一个惊喜。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I think now we can see why these lines about the autumnal leavesare so difficult for us to incorporate into a moral reading or a theological reading of the poem.

我们现在可以看到为什么,这些关于秋天的落叶的句子如此难以,与对这首诗的道德或者神学的理解相结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Let's illustrate these general points by just reading together and trying to hear the beginning of Robert Frost's poem "Birches," on page 211 in The Norton.

让我们解释这个笼统的观点通过一起读诗,尝试去听罗伯特·弗罗斯特的诗“桦树“,在211页，诺顿。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now the rhetorical question completes the usual reading of the poem.

这首诗以修辞型问句结尾。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is probably the most difficult poem linguistically that we'll be reading all semester.

语言上说来这可能是最难的一首诗,我们这一学期都要阅读这首诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Lycidas is probably the most difficult poem that we'll be reading all semester.

可谓是我们这学期要涉及到的,最难懂的一首诗了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Reading and writing a poem are part of the same activity.

读诗和写诗是同一种艺术活动。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Brooks It's very interesting. Brooks's reading of "She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways," the wonderful Lucy poem by Wordsworth, emphasizes the irony of the poem.

非常有趣,在对Wordsworth的诗“,《独自幽居》的解读中，就十分强调讽刺的运用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Milton -- this will be the working assumption that I bring to my reading of this poem -Milton sets out to prove something in Lycidas, and the most important thing that he proves is his control over the learning that he has accumulated.

弥尔顿-这是我个人对于诗歌的理解之中,极为有益的一点假设,弥尔顿旨在在里证明一些事情，他所要证明的最重要一点在于,其自身对于他所学所积累的一种完全的掌控。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As you may well have gleaned from your reading, the first books of the poem are particularly absorbed with the idea of forgetting, because more than any other part of Paradise Lost they display so ostentatiously the remarkable scope of Milton's own memory.

可能你们从阅读中也已经得知，这部诗的第一册,尤其表现了“遗忘“这一理念，因为相对于《失乐园》的其他部分,它们如此夸耀地展示了,弥尔顿自身记忆范围的宽广。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One of the labors of reading Paradise Lost is the reader's obligation to supply the analog for the X, and this poem is filled with such X's.

读的一个麻烦就是,读者需要自行类比出X究竟是什么，偏偏诗中又充满了这种不确定物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选