“So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paper clip by literary historians and called their 'oeuvre'.”

“所以诗人在不断地尝试，或早或晚，由于自我的不满足而不断给出的答案会被文学历史学家用一个巨大的纸夹夹在一起，人管这叠纸叫做他的“毕生心血”。

Although this does not sound like a particularly rich image, a metaphor can communicate so much about a particular image that poets use them more than any other type of figurative language.

虽然这个隐喻听起并不是特别生动，但是隐喻可以充分传递某个特定意象的信息，因此，成为最受诗人青睐的修辞手法。

So there were coffee houses dedicated to literature, and writers and poets would congregate there.

有很多文学主题的咖啡馆，作家和诗人会在那聚会。

Then came the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs.

后爆发了法国大革命和拿破仑战争，诗人唱起新的诗歌。

This line often brings attention to the mood or emotion of the poem.

这一行经常引起人对诗的情绪或情感的关注。

They took Hector to his home, and the minstrels mourned while the women wept aloud.

他把赫克托耳带回家，吟游诗人对此哀悼，妇女哭泣，。

I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

我告诉人口语诗创新了诗歌 使它不是只出现在书本上， 它使诗歌被大朗读传咏 或让人亲身体验口语诗。

But I'm Iranian too, and I have the ancient wisdom of Iranian mystics, Ferdowsi, Hafez and Rumi, running through my veins.

但我也是伊朗人，伊朗神秘主义诗人费尔多西、哈菲兹和鲁米的古老智慧流淌在我的血液里。

For that, rhymers needed to take another step: organize this info into tables.

为了解决这个问题，诗人需要更进一步：把这样的信息编排成韵图。

Is it to furnish subjects to the poets, and live in their immortal rhymes as they call them?

难道就是要供给诗人以吟咏的题材，并生活在他那些所谓不朽的诗篇之中吗？

This poem also encouraged interest in the ancient people of South America - like the Incans.

这首诗激发了人对印加人等南美古代人的兴趣。

Greek physicians considered wine to be good for health, and poets testified to its creative qualities.

希腊医师宣称 红酒有益于身体健康，诗人也赞叹酒精对创造力的显著裨益。

Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition.

诗人自己也为这个问题所困扰，常常借助比喻近似地定义诗歌。

(Applause) Thank you very much, the poets in the corner.

（掌）非常感谢，角落里的诗人。

And Poets had  to reckon with what it meant to write poetry now.

诗人不得不思考，在下创作诗歌意味着什么。

So you'd find musicians doing it, poets doing it, this kind of thing.

因此，你会发现音乐家这样做，诗人也这样做，诸如此类的事情。

It's when the Normans invade Britain and they interact with all of the Welsh bards and those tales all get, you know, transported to the continent and they elaborated on them and they spread like wildfire.

正是在诺曼人入侵英国之， 他与威尔士的吟游诗人相互交流， 这些故事随之传遍欧洲大陆，经过丰富和扩展， 如野火般迅速蔓延开。 这一过程确实极为引人入胜。

By this time, writers and poets from England had also begun to notice Whitman's poetry and talk about it in a favorable light – that is, say that they liked it.

此，自英国的作家和诗人也开始注意到惠特曼的诗歌， 并对其给予好评——也就是说， 他表示喜欢这些作品。

It may currently be ruled by clerics but they run a country steeped in the mysticism of the Sufis, where for centuries the poets wrote of wine and women and love.

它目前可能由神职人员统治， 但他管理的国家充满了苏菲派的神秘主义，几个世纪以， 诗人都在吟诵关于美酒、女人和爱情的作品。

It's the longest illustrated poem in praise of ordinary work ever written and it has a huge impact on how people perceive the prestige of work.

这是有史以最长的赞美普通工作的插图诗，它对人如何看待工作的望产生了巨大影响。