The poem represents a kind of as does the short poem, "A Coat" represents a kind of ascetic move, an active imaginative and rhetorical stripping-down.

和短诗一件外套一样,这首诗代表了“,一种禁欲主义，主动的想象和对华丽辞藻的摆脱。

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So, therefore, we must take up, he suggests, an ascetic path,engaging only, as he says, in "those works" that are fit "for such men as come proud, open-eyed" and laughing to the tomb.

因此我们必须采取，如他所说，一条美学的道路，这些作品只适合于,对那些骄傲的、睁着眼笑嘻嘻“,走向坟墓的人。

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