The pastoral elegy is clearly one of the most stylized and most self-consciously artificial of all of the poetic genres.

田园挽歌明显是所有诗歌类型中,最程式化，最具人工雕琢痕迹的诗种之一。

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Now in Virgil's early poem, the Sixth Eclogue, the speaker explains that the writing of pastoral poetry is the stuff that young poets do.

在维吉尔早期的诗篇里，诗人解释道,田园诗歌的创作是年轻诗人的必经之路。

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What good is it -- you'll remember -- what good is it, Milton asks, ; "to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade"; that's, of course, the vocation of poetry if that shepherd-poet is just going to be struck down in his prime as Edward King had been?

大家可以看到，弥尔顿在这里发出了疑问，“进行平凡微不足道的诗歌创作“，又有何益;,当然，就田园诗人而言，诗歌的天命,是否在于如同爱德华金一般的英年早逝？

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