The similes are continually working to unleash -and they're really quite unruly in this respect -to unleash the moral and the theological confusion that so much of the rest of the poem seems really quite eager to pin down and to fix.

这里的比喻不断的想要解脱束缚,-它们从这个方面来看也的确不受什么束缚,-解脱道德上和理论上的混乱无序,这首诗的剩余部分都显得急切于,下定论进行弥补。

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