Virtue

What is the main conflict in Virtue by George Herbert?

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Implicit in the poem, Virtue, is a delicately expressed struggle between rebellion and obedience. The understated conflict lies between the desire to experience worldly pleasures and the desire, or as Herbert would insist, the need to surrender to the will of God.

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