I didn't realize it would sometimes be more than whole.

我并没有意识到 有时它会超越整体

Because it's the halves that halve you in half.

是那破碎将你劈成两半

and that what you should do with the poem is show its wholeness--

你就应该去展现它的完整性

see how it embodies a formal beauty, a formal order.

看看它是如何体现其形式上的美和层次感的

And I suppose that's what really interests me,

这也是最吸引我的地方

change, how it all fits together,

如何从全局上把握

But I would like to suggest that it's precisely that non-utilitarian quality

但是我更愿意猜想 她的非功利主义

If aesthetic bliss is what Nabokov confesses is his ultimate aim for art

如果提供审美愉悦是纳博科夫在文章