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Original Poem Reprinted Online Here: "Caritas" by Rachael Boast More Information about the Poet: Rachael Boast Caritas .  I wonder how virtue plays a part in this poem, which, I think, is more of an eckphrastic piece.  As I am rereading this poem, I focus more on how the speaker addresses language as this poem is very planned down to the usage of adjectives and nouns. "These stones speak a level language / murmured word by word,"  The first two lines of this quatrain plays with alliteration: "s" "l" and "w."  The sounds come at a fast pace and pays attention to itself within the structure; furthermore, the content itself about how the "stones" speak.  At this point, I feel the speaker and the setting are very similar.  "a speech pocked and porous with loss, / and the slow hungers of weathering"  So the language turns from basic "word by word" to a more precise language which anthropomorphizes: pocked, porou...