So, you had the kids write a poem and then an essay explaining the literary antecedents of the poem.

你讓孩子們寫一首詩 然后再寫篇隨筆闡明這首詩的文學(xué)先例

There were secret pamphlets, secret poems, extremely rude poems about her physique and her body.

私下秘密流傳著小冊子 詩歌 其中包括一些粗俗不堪的 描寫她的身材與身體的詩歌

If the poem's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph, and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of its greatness.

若將詩歌的完美程度 看作一張圖表的橫軸 把其重要性看作縱軸 然后計算出它的所占面積 也就是其偉大程度的衡量標準

But it turns out she had written me a poem.

結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)她給我寫了一首詩

So she hid her location in her poems.

所以她把位置隱藏在了詩里

One of my books has a poem about it.

我的一本書上有一首關(guān)于它的詩

And then... and then, I'll say my latest poems to them.

然后 我會把我最新的詩句念給他們聽

It reminds me of a poem I read once.

這讓我想起了我讀過的一首詩

I brought you these and a poem I wrote for you.

我想送花給你 我還為你寫了一首詩

That poem you were teachin'. I looked it up.

你教的那首詩 我去找了