Invictus

Analysis of Invictus Poetries are the many ways that people can express their feeling and emotion. They are the manifest of everything that the authors contribute into. In Poetry, whether its sadness or happiness, they are the nature of the authors soul and body. In the poem Invictus meaning unconquerable in Latin, the author William Ernest Henley wrote this poem in a life and death situation. Henley wrote this poem during his time in the hospital, being treated of tuberculosis as well as having his foot amputated. The poem describes the unwavering and unconquerable soul that one possesses during the time of death. When facing death, one needs courage and a stone hard soul in order to guide them through the remaining time of their life. It is the unconquerable soul that truly defines the bravery of one’s life. The poem’s rhyme scheme is in an order in which the last word of one line rhymes with the ending of the third line of this line, for example “A,B,A,B”. In the first stanza of the poem, the narrator describes the night that is engulfed by darkness. It was despair that torture life and it was darkness among darkness in the night. The author was not blessed by god nor did he pray for help from god. He was acceptance of the strength that he already possesses and was happy to make it through the despair. The only strength he depended on was his unconquerable. He was happy to make it through solely with his own strength and spirit. The second stanza continues from the first stanza of his path into the darkness of despair. “In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud”, the author tries to convey the image of him unyielding to pain and fear. He did not complain nor cried to god. “Under the bludgeonings of the chances. My head is bloody, but unbowed”. These two lines describe the torture of hell he experience in his bloody path, yet he stands unbowed with his head high up.
The narrator conveys the golden hard spirit of himself who