It's one of the purposes of this poem to allow Milton to grow out of his infancy, to incarnate or to put actually into words the talent that he believes himself to possess.

还有一个目的就是,使弥尔顿自己不断成熟，把他相信自己所拥有的,天赋变为文字。

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