The image of a poet interrupted and chided by the god of poetry comes straight out of the opening of Virgil's Sixth Eclogue.

这段诗人被神明打断斥责的场景,直接明了地出现在维吉尔的里。

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Now in Virgil's early poem, the Sixth Eclogue, the speaker explains that the writing of pastoral poetry is the stuff that young poets do.

在维吉尔早期的诗篇里，诗人解释道,田园诗歌的创作是年轻诗人的必经之路。

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The poem is based most closely on Virgil's Tenth Eclogue.

这首诗取材于维吉尔的《牧歌》第十首。

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Virgil had written a poem in the Sixth Eclogue that had touched Milton, and it had touched Milton, I think, because it begins with Virgil's own brooding meditation on the course of his poetic career.

维吉尔在里的一首诗触动了弥尔顿，之所以这首诗能够触动他，是因为那首诗是以维吉尔本身关于诗歌职业的,忧伤的沉思，开篇的。

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