我希望我的诗表现的是失落，而非乡愁，如同那名男高音唱着意大利咏叹调，宛如剧院的断壁颓垣，都流露出历史的失落。

I hope my poem is about loss, not nostalgia, that the tenor singing an Italian aria, like the ruined pilasters of the theater, suggests an historical dimension of loss.

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那时我完全不知道他的诗。

I was then totally unacquainted with his poems.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我喜欢句尾押韵的诗。

I prefer poems that rhyme.

《牛津词典》

And this poem seemed like one you might find and be able to read yourself, without me there to explain it.

而这首诗似乎是一首,你们自己就可以读懂的，不用我多做解释的诗。

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So, The Norton Anthology, this book, this heavy book, I order it as a way to, well, reduce your expenses.

叫《一首诗的心路历程》，就在这本诺顿诗集里，我自己订购了一本，这样可以减少你们的花费。

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Professor John Rogers: The best way, I think, to introduce the central issues of this wonderful poem, Lycidas, is to return to Milton's Comus.

约翰·罗杰斯教授：我认为，要向你们介绍《利西达斯》,这首精彩的诗的精髓，最好的方法莫过于，回顾一下弥尔顿的《科玛斯》

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