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It's fitting that the first poem of Milton's that we study in this class is "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity."
这节课我们首先学弥尔顿的,《圣诞清晨歌》是很合适的“
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The poem on the morning of Christ's nativity serves as Milton's preparation for something greater than itself.
圣诞清晨歌》这首诗,在弥尔顿准备阶段起到一个比诗本身要大的作用。
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Milton calls them the "Sojourners of Goshen," and they're standing outside the general parameters of the comparison.
弥尔顿称他们为“歌珊的寄居人“,他们遥遥地站在对比的大体界限之外。
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But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.
但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。
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She represents a power that might enable Milton to warble a right or proper song.
她象征着一种力量,也许那种力量可以让弥尔顿也婉转的唱出一首恰如其分的歌。
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Milton naturally wrote his friend letters in impeccable Latin verse, and this one he seems to have composed almost immediately after having written, having completed,the Nativity Ode.
弥尔顿用毫无瑕疵的拉丁文很自然的给朋友写信，而且这首诗,是在弥尔顿一写完《圣诞清晨歌》,就拿去排版的。
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He was long in choosing the subject of his heroic song and, as we know from all of -- and we've encountered a number of them - all of those protestations of delay Milton began his epic late.
他久久未能确定他要写的英雄之歌的主题，这我们从从弥尔顿多次声言,自己的史诗动笔很晚就能看出。
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Milton clearly wants us to know that this Nativity Ode was written by a young Londoner in 1629, but it's a poem that is at the same time deliverable to the infant Christ by some extraordinary violation, of course, of all of the established laws of temporal sequence.
显然弥尔顿想让我们了解这首《圣诞清晨歌》,是在1629由一位伦敦年轻人写的，但是它同时也是一首,通过非同寻常的方法能够交到圣婴手里的诗，当然这就需要他违反现有的一系列法律。
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Now we recognize the song. This is the song from Revelation of the virgins who could learn and sing the new song before the throne of the Lord, but Milton has obviously taken John's image here and exploded the implications of its erotic potential.
我们知道这首歌是指哪首了，是《启示录》中,处子们能在上帝宝座跟前学习演唱的那首歌，但很明显，弥尔顿将圣约翰描绘的这景象,所包含的的感性含义都大大扩大化了。
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