Days, weeks, months marched by outside the window while I sat in a cheap sling chair in my little room in the apartment I Shared with a young would-be poet, smoking cigarettes and reading novels.

我当时蜇居某公寓，与一位梦想成为诗人的年轻人共居一室，临窗坐在简陋的躺椅上一边吸烟，一边看小说。不知有多少个日夜、多少个星期、多少个岁月从窗外流逝而过。

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I think the answer may involve the possibility that at the beginning of the poem, there simply wasn't a clear distinction between the poet and the speaker.

答案可能包括了，在诗歌的开头，根本就没有一个清晰的区分的可能性。

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The poet, Stanley Kunitz suggested: “I have walked through many lives—some of them my own—and I am not who I was though some principles of my being abide.”

诗人斯坦利说：“我经历过许多的生活——其中的一些是我自己的——我也并不是一个我坚持一些原则的那种人。”

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I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, I am the poet of the woman the same as the man.

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With "Mowing" as the example, I said that in Frost, meaning is always something made, something the poet works on and works for.

用“割草“做例子，我说过对弗罗斯特来说，意义总是一些事情体现出的，是一些诗人一直致力于的，一直追求的。

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And if we wish to continue this analogy, and I certainly do, between the poet Milton and the virgin Lady, we can see that this is a release that John Milton the poet has been waiting some time for.

如果我们希望继续这个弥尔顿的诗与小姐贞操的类比，我肯定会，我们可以看到,这是弥尔顿的诗等了很久的一种解脱。

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But I love being a poet, and I think that the poetry is the foundation of all of my creative work, actually.

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Rod and I stopped there and lounged among the flowers, in a dry westerly wind, talking about the downland poet Edward Thomas, the downland painter Eric Ravilious, and why I should never have slept in Chanctonbury Ring.

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And now they are coming up the road to my place because I'm a poet, and I live in a compound defended by polygamist haikus.

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