A major thrust of Mr Muldoon's argument is that a poem is not a self-sufficient construct made of words which can stand alone without any knowledge of the biography of its author.
A major thrust of Mr Muldoon's argument is that a poem is not a self-sufficient construct made of words which can stand alone without any knowledge of the biography of its author.
穆尔杜颇具影响力的一大论点是：诗歌不是一种自给自足式的遣词造句，因而对诗歌的理解离不开对作者生平的了解。