It's safe to say that Lycidas is one of the last poetic works of Milton's that's really consumed with his problem, the problem of fruitless anticipation.

谨慎的说，是弥尔顿最后的,切实地与他自身的问题有关的诗篇之一，他自身关于毫无成果的期望的问题。

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This is a debate that will forever and forever be fruitless because it's unanswerable.

此争论永不会有结果,因为它是不可解答的。

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Now we began this poem with the sense of the dreary repetitiveness in that opening phrase, "Yet once more," but here very close to the poem's end we have a vision of an end to all those fruitless exercises of repetition.

现在我们带着首句，“然而再一次的“里,沉闷的重复感开始读这首诗“,但是在诗的最后我们有一种,所有徒劳的重复行为都结束了的感觉。

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