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The poem “Virtue” is written from a very offensive point of view. The author sees death as some kind of joyous occasion that is described by various uplifting pronouns or adjectives, such as “sweet” or “virtuous {referring to the soul that is no longer going to live}”. He commands for death to happen when stated “And thou must die”, so he obviously thinks himself as a pseudo-judge of mortality. George, the author seems to find much interest in the overuse of “sweet” when he describes people and the earth, but in this he seems to