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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