It scoffs at the vanity of all things, including wisdom, and espouses a kind of positive existentialism.

它嘲笑一切事物的虚华，包括智慧，信封绝对的实存主义。

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The anger here is directed against the superficial, the flashy, liturgies read by the Laudian priests, but I think it's also being directed at the lean and flashy songs that are being written by Milton's poetic contemporaries, his rival poets.

这里表现出的愤怒，很明显是针对，劳德式牧师们虚伪浮华的礼拜式，但我认为这也是针对这些本身很虚华,由弥尔顿同时代的诗人所写的颂歌。

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