Invictus
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This poem expresses the speaker's unconquerable and unafraid soul in the face of adversity. Though circumstances have left the speaker's head bloody, their soul remains unbowed and unafraid despite the horrors and menaces that loom ahead. The speaker asserts that regardless of life's hardships or punishments, they are in control of their own fate and soul.
Invictus
- 1. Invictus William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoning of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.