He goes in a sense in an anti-modern direction, maybe even in some sense in a reactionary direction, at least in relation to other poets' ideas of progress and innovation.

他某种意义上走入了反现代化的方向，甚至某种意义上走入了反动的方向，但至少和其他诗人关于,进步和创新的想法有关系。

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There's a kind of, well, masculinism in Yeats, and it's part of what I meant last time when I spoke of Yeats's anti-modernism or his reactionary modernism.

叶芝有点大男子主义，我上次提到叶芝反对,现代主义是就在指这点。

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Is this guy a revolutionary or is he a reactionary?

此人到底是革命派还是保守派？

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For that matter, how can it be reactionary?

文学怎么能是反动的呢？

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For all of Yeats's reactionary moods, even for his indulgence in nostalgia here, he's not a nostalgic poet. And this poem I think shows us what I mean by that.

尽管他有保守的心态，此处也是沉浸在回忆中，但他不是个怀旧诗人,这首诗正表现这点。

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