Eliot's poetry, the poetry he created out of this experience, is a poetry of spiritual agony.

艾略特的诗歌，他以自身经验写成的那些诗，是一种精神上的爆发。

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Instead of listening to the cry of agony they listen to the ring of dollars and stoop down and pick up the coins."

怨言绕耳过,硬币叮当落,速拾不嫌多"

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