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As in Sonnet Seven, Milton writes the first verse paragraph of this great poem, Lycidas -- the first fourteen lines - in essentially the form of a sonnet.

如同《十四行诗第七首》，弥尔顿写《利西达斯》,这首伟大的诗的开头--头14行时,-用的还是十四行诗的形式。

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The first is the radical theology, and the second is this poem's equally radical and equally daring original verse form.

第一是它激进的神学观点，第二是这首诗,同样激进大胆的原始诗歌形式。

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An ear and an appetite for these sounds of sense is the first qualification of a writer, be it of prose or verse.

这些感性的声音的耳朵和胃口,是作家最基本的素质，不论是写散文还是诗歌。

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Professor John Rogers: Milton is typically cited by literary historians as one of the first major English poets to praise in verse the institution of marriage.

约翰·罗格斯教授：文学家们说弥尔顿,是英国早期诗人中,赞美婚姻制度的一员。

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There is first the understandable aesthetic power, the power of the beauty of Milton's verse, an aesthetic power that's often thought or felt to inhere somewhere in the poetry itself.

首先是美学上的力量，这是可以理解的，弥尔顿的诗句之美的力量，一种美学意义上的力量,大家通常认为或觉得这是弥尔顿诗歌本身固有的一种力量。

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So let's look at an example of how this might actually happen, a way in which the verse actually seems to generate this sensation of bodily freedom. Just look at the first line of the poem: "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit."

让我们来看一个具体例子，看看诗句是怎么样产生,躯体自由的快感的，整首诗的第一句：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

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