It usually follows from this that somebody like this points out that whereas we all know that a democratic society is the best society to live in, poetry prefers feudal society: it makes better poetry.

赞成这种观点的人指出,虽然我们都知道,民主社会是最适合生存的，诗歌却更喜欢封建社会：,因为封建社会更适合诗歌创作。

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And so the translators of this particular translation chose these feudal--very meaningful to you I'm sure--these feudal categories.

所以这个译本的译者特别选择了这些封建社会的分类,这一点对你们来说一定意义重大。

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