through this sort of anguished crucible of all out war.

是如何描绘出这些处于水深火热的形象
Look especially for those journeys into

注意看这些经历
Sherman's own mind, Sherman's psyche,

取自谢尔曼的思想活动心理状况
those meditations of Sherman's on death.

谢尔曼关于死亡的这些沉思
Page 88 and 89 to be exact is, I think,

我想是在88至89页这里
an unforgettable mediation by Sherman on the meaning of death

谢尔曼就死亡意义有一个令人难忘的总结
and just what it means

还有这其中的意义
and why he in some ways enjoys it.

以及他为何在某种程度上喜欢这样
Herman Melville wrote a whole bunch of

赫尔曼·梅尔维尔在内战时期
poems during the civil war.

写过很多的诗
He was one of the poets spared.

他在当时并不有名
He wasn't very famous yet, as you know, for Moby Dick;

我们都知道《白鲸》使他一举成名