This weird temporal disjunction is an important part of the poem, and it not only gives the poem its peculiar air of something like a conceptual time-warp, but it's an important part of Milton's profoundly anticipatory imagination.

这个古怪的暂时的脱节是诗歌中很重要的一部分，它不仅带给诗歌一种不寻常的感觉,就像概念性的时光隧道，但他确实是弥尔顿,深奥的预言性想象的重要部分。

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