We would think that Milton's contemporaries might be aghast that such a sympathetic portrait of Satan could be used at the beginning of the poem.

我们很可能以为，与弥尔顿同时代的人,看到本诗开头就对撒旦有如此具体系统的描述,定会感到惊骇。

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Modern poetry is, in all these ways, Promethean, astounding, arrogant, enormous, imprudent, visionary.

综上可见，现代诗歌是普罗米修斯般令人惊骇又自大的，无穷无尽的，轻率的却又充满了幻觉的。

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The Execution , this is Manet, who is horrified by the whole thing.

枪决》,马奈的作品,他惊骇于整场屠杀

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