To get a better sense of the modern name game, we stopped some families out on the National Mall here in Washington,D.C.

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Yeats's sense of modern history, of the crisis of his moment this is something we can describe and explore next time in "Easter 1916."

叶芝对现代历史，和他所生活时代的危机的感触,我们可从下节课要读的诗,1916年的复活节,还描述和探究“

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I said that Yeats looks on the modern with a sense of both horror and a fascination, a compulsion almost.

我说过叶芝看待现代是,以一种害怕和好奇的感觉，一种难以压抑的冲动。

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But that sense of collective liberty, the freedom to resist or invade is, in fact, even opposed to the modern idea of liberty that Hobbes proposes.

事实上，这种拥有抵抗，或是入侵他人的集体自由,与霍布斯提出的现代自由是相悖的。

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So I went back to the great creator raising his plastic arm and suggested that, well, maybe after all there might be some good way of complicating the meaning of Akenside by suggesting that the modern, anachronistic meaning of "plastic" would be relevant to the sense of the poem.

所以我回想了一下,当这位伟大的创造家抬起他的塑料手臂，说，也许总有办法,能让Akenside的意思更复杂,有一个很好的例子就是,“plastic“一词古今意思的差别“,和诗歌的意境有关。

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These are, in a sense, complementary images of the modern in America.

某种意义上来说，这是互补的对于现代美国的印象。

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There's an extraordinary sense of verbal chaos, a kind of word hoard that modern poetry and modernism -generally, a kind of linguistic environment of great complexity from which modern poetry and modernism emerge.

这里关于口头言论的混乱有一种独特的理解，关于现代诗歌和现代性的隐藏理解,总之，是一种关于语言环境的庞大复杂性的理解,现代诗歌和现代性即是由此产生发展。

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