His adventurous song is one that "with no middle flight intends to soar above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhyme."

他那具有冒险精神的诗歌,“抛开了中途的旅程，要一飞冲天越过爱奥尼神山，同时追寻使用在未经使用的韵律“

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Like Homer and like Virgil, Milton intends to soar above the wheeling poles of the visible world and describe the otherwise invisible comings and goings of the gods.

像荷马和维吉尔那样，弥尔顿想屹立于现实世界之上,去描绘无形世界中上帝的来来往往。

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Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles, and at Heav'n's door Look in, and see each blissful Deity Now the graver subject that Milton is intending at some point to expound upon is clearly an epic one.

埋藏于心底的思想会,冲天而上并到达上帝的门前,往里一瞥你会看到每个快乐的神,现在弥尔顿正打算用更庄重的主题,详细点说就是史诗。

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