In the second verse paragraph, Milton tells his father: "do not despise divine poetry, creation of the prophetic bard.

在诗的第二段，弥尔顿对他父亲说：,不要轻视神圣的诗歌，诗人预示性的创作。

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And according to this image of the vocation of the poet, Milton isn't claiming divine inspiration at all. He's making a deal.

通过这种对诗人职业的比喻，弥尔顿并不在宣传神圣精神，他在做生意。

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But Milton portrays himself as a laborer here, a poet who by labor and intense study actually has to work to produce the great poem. Milton's divine vocation, his calling, seems in this light to be something like a vocation in the modern sense: it's a job that exacts work or labor.

但弥尔顿把他自己描绘成一个工人,一个只能通过努力学习来创作出,伟大诗歌的诗人，弥尔顿的神圣的使命，他的天职，就此而论就像现代意义上的职业了：,一份要求工作和劳动的职业。

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