That is to say, we're going to focus on the question of what a poem is, and the question "What criteria should we invoke in order to read it for the best and correctly?"

换句话说，我们将把注意力集中在,“什么是诗歌“,和“为了读懂诗歌,我们需要具备哪些素质“的问题上“

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It isn't necessary for you to grasp his occultism in order to read his poetry well.

但这不是必要的,没必要去理解他的系统,不理解系统也可以读他的诗。

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The point of this advertisement is to make you feel like you don't have to know what the critic knows in order to read this novel.

这个广告的目的是让你觉得不用具备批评家的知识,也能读懂这部小说。

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Here, as elsewhere in Yeats' poetry, it's not essential for you to be able to pursue his occult learning and decode his symbols in order to read his poetry.

这首诗还有他的其他诗里，研究他的神秘主义学习,和解释这些象征对读他的诗,来说不是很重要。

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