1. The simile is there ostensibly to compare Satan with the great sea beast, leviathan. 这个明喻很明显是将撒旦和凶猛的海中野兽利维坦进行了对比。
2. The pastoral elegance of this little simile really catches us off guard. 这个有着田园诗情画意般优雅的小比喻确实让我们毫无防备。
3. The simile isn't telling us that Satan's spear is as small as a wand because what we have is a syllogism here. 这个比喻没有告诉我们撒旦的长矛像魔杖一样小，因为我们在这儿有一个演绎推理。
4. First we have the "Pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff," and the pilot stands ab extra, from outside, in the simile. 首先我们看这句“迷茫深夜中，轻舟的导航人”，在这个明喻中，导航人从诗句之外向内眺望。
5. Satan's shield is as big as the moon—this is the most common form of simile, epic, or otherwise, and it can be schematized. 撒旦的盾如同月亮一般庞大——这是最常见的比喻、史诗或其他形式，并且还可以被系统化。
