请帮忙翻译英语句子：Traditional Chinese poethood derived meaning from

请帮忙翻译英语句子：Traditional Chinese poethood derived meaning from the expression of what the ruler's subjects would have had to say about the way they were ruled,had they been poets themselves.Traditional Chinese poethood derived meaning from the expression of what the ruler's subjects would have had to say about the way they were ruled, had they been poets themselves.