Yeats bridges Irish and English cultures, and he is importantly Protestant with social and family ties to English life.

叶芝连接了爱尔兰和英国文化，作为新教徒，他和英国,在社会和家庭方面联系紧密。

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But the Welsh and Irish, who very much got their own culture,

其实威尔士人和爱尔兰人，那些受自己文化熏陶很深的人，

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Yeats was trained in the occult disciplines of Theosophy and Gnosticism. Those traditions merge in his early work with European symbolism, and also with Irish cultural nationalism.

叶芝曾受到通神论和诺斯替教,神秘主义教条的训练，这些传统,在他早期作品中与欧洲象征主义，和爱尔兰文化民族主义结合。

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