If you follow these instructions " you will be a man my son." So that's the mode of thought he may have been in when he talked.

如果你遵循这些教诲,你将成为一个真正的人，我的孩子,所以，那也许才是他发言时所处的思维模式吧。

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He's introducing the reader to a mode of vision different from the vision typically permitted him from within the poem's more or less straightforward, linear, narrative boundaries.

他在向读者介绍一种不同于这首诗里,直白的线状叙述的界限,或多或少已经容许他，显露出的设想有所不同的先见之明。

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He's perpetually seeking a mode of properly speaking.

他一直都试图能够得体讲话。

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Why can't he write love poetry, secular poetry, instead of this much more disciplined, much more difficult mode of sacred and prophetic poetry ? that he seems already to have wedded himself to?

为什么不写爱情诗，世俗的诗，而是这些,拘束难写的庄严的充满套路的,他似乎长久以来一直都在写的诗呢？

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