Obama placed the ghost of his absent father at the center of his lyrical account of his life .
在对自己生活热情洋溢的描述中，奥巴马始终把已故父亲的精神放在中心位置。
He tries to bring into his plays a special lyrical quality .
他试图给他的剧本注入一种特殊的抒情韵味。
The 57 year-old looks like an eastern european intellectual on a day off tall and broad and dressed in black , speaking accented english in a lyrical baritone .
Pythagoras believed the souls of poets passed into swans , a fitting entombment that turns the tattered phrase " poetry in motion " into a truly lyrical trope .
