Although the poem is an epic, his method was to treat the moral virtues allegorically.

虽然首诗是一部史诗，但他的方法却是以寓言的方式对待道德美德。

And so here we're inviting ourselves to kind of think really creatively about what associations do we have allegorically with this sentence.

因此，我们在里邀请大家发挥创意，思考一下个句子在比喻意义上让我们联想到什么。

There is a way in which in the revolutionary era, women were always figured as the victims of British oppression, allegorically, like the rape of America by...

在革命时期，女常被地描绘为英国压迫的受害者，如同美国被… … 强暴一般。