The point is simply to recognize that the apples are occult symbols, which is to say they're not apples.

关键是要认识,苹果是神秘主义的象征，就是说它们并不是苹果。

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Well, his poems themselves have an occult dimension of evoking this "great mind" and the spirits contained therein through symbols.

他的诗歌有玄秘的意境,能召唤“伟大的思想“,其中灵魂通过象征体现。

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This occult Yeats is a genuinely and wonderfully strange thinker.

在神秘主义方面，叶芝,真是个奇异的思想者。

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The occult gives Yeats aesthetic forms for understanding individual psychology and historical event.

神秘主义使叶芝从美学角度,理解个人的心理,和历史事件。

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Here, as elsewhere in Yeats' poetry, it's not essential for you to be able to pursue his occult learning and decode his symbols in order to read his poetry.

这首诗还有他的其他诗里，研究他的神秘主义学习,和解释这些象征对读他的诗,来说不是很重要。

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Yeats was trained in the occult disciplines of Theosophy and Gnosticism. Those traditions merge in his early work with European symbolism, and also with Irish cultural nationalism.

叶芝曾受到通神论和诺斯替教,神秘主义教条的训练，这些传统,在他早期作品中与欧洲象征主义，和爱尔兰文化民族主义结合。

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This is, I think, how we need to understand the various occult symbols in another great poem from this phase in his career, a little bit further on, "The Second Coming," on page 111.

我想这就是，我们去理解叶芝同时期另一首,伟大诗歌中神秘意象的方法，以更深刻地理解它，《第二次降临》在111页。

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