However dimly that light came through to you, suffering so acutely from the rough denial of the very existence of American ideals, part of it must have come through American delineation of American characters.

不管遇到何种艰险，哪怕翻山越岭,哪怕趟水滚沙，这些都需要,生动的角色来表现出来。

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Yeats explores that experience, which is an experience of suffering here and of violation, through a series of rhetorical questions, which are a crucial poetic device for Yeats.

叶芝探索了这种感受，这里这是一种痛苦,一种暴力，表现为一系列隐喻的问题，这是他写诗的一种手法。

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