It's an extraordinarily dark way to characterize the composition and the process of the poem.

这样来界定创作诗歌的过程,是一种非常不好的方式。

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In the invocation to Book Nine of Paradise Lost, Milton describes and it's wonderful to see this representation of this process that, I think, we've been wondering about he describes the process by which the heavenly muse inspires, and he says inspires nightly, the composition of his epic.

在《失乐园》第九卷中，弥尔顿描绘了,看到弥尔顿对这一过程的描述很是奇妙，我们都对这一过程很好奇,弥尔顿描绘了天神缪斯启示他，他说是在晚上启示的，启示他写作史诗的过程。

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