It's almost as if the entire point of a pastoral is that it is set in a world that neither the urbane poet nor the urbane reader has actually any real experience with.

似乎田园诗的全部意义就在于它的背景设在田园,而不管是都市诗人还是都市读者,都没有任何实际的田园经历。

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For Stevens, when modernity takes away God what it does is unveil the poet's Godlike powers, a power to create the world through imagination, imagination which created God in the first place.

对他而言，当现代性取代了上帝的地位,它所起的作用就是解释诗人所有的神明般的力量，这是一种在想象中重塑世界的力量，这种想象最初创造出了上帝。

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