Because they represent dimensions of experience formerly excluded from the elevated, idealized discourse that is poetry, dimensions of experience excluded as prosaic.

因为它们分别代表了原先经验的多维化,却将提升的理想化的论道即诗歌排除在外，将无趣的经验也排除在外。

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What could be more prosaic than "It is raining?" All of a sudden you notice that string of "i's." You notice all kinds of other things about it.

最基本的意思就是“在下雨“，但是你注意到,“i’s“这个词，你注意到它的相关意义。

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