難句突破：

(1)    In this edition of his later poems, a substantial gathering of verses selected from six volumes published over the past 20 years, his poetry does not so much consist of themes to be explored as comic routines to be improvised.

[主體結構] His poetry does not so much consist of ...

[結構分析] 本句為簡單句，作狀語的介詞短語成分比較復雜，a substantial gathering of verses是edition的同位語，該同位語是帶有作定語的分詞短語。在主句中，不定式短語to be explored...用來修飾themes, 而不定式短語to be improvised 又用來修飾comic routines.

[句子譯文] 他這本晚些出版的詩集選編了過去20年間出版的六本詩集中的詩歌，其主題不再是象那種臨時準備的老套滑稽節目，他戲謔詩歌本身具有嚴肅性這個話題

(2) This is often the poet's stock-in-trade, but he seems to single them out in order to send up the very idea of the simile in poetry, as in "Violets blossomed loudly/ like a swear word in an empty tank".

[主體句式] This is ... but he ...

[結構分析] 這是一個并列句，后面分句成份較為復雜，帶有一個不定式短語作目的狀語，as 引導成分修飾的是整個分句。

[句子譯文] 雖然這是詩人的慣用手法，但他卻把這些比喻單獨挑出來，以突出詩里面明喻這個概念。比如"紫羅蘭縱聲開放/ 宛如空桶里的一句毒誓"。

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