The Motivational Adda

 Invictus: Full Poem Explanation, Summary, Theme, Poetic Devices and Related Questions:- Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole. I thanks whatever god may be, For my unconquerable soul In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings 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. - William Ernst Henley Overview and Background: Invictus poem was one of the works that William Henley did when he was in the hospital; the poem was composed during his isolation due to early and life-threatening battles with tuberculosis. Henley publishes many poems in different collections, including "In Hospital," written between 1878 and 1875, and "A book of v...