The poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley is about the struggles and hardships of a person in one's life but how hard life can get, one must not back down and continue to live the way he wants it to be. One must not let the negativity succumb their whole being and let it get the best of him.
The first three lines of the poem are using enjambment. Wherein the stanza continues on to the next stanza to show its message to the next without using punctuation marks.
There are literary devices used that can be seen in most of the lines or stanzas. The use of metaphor can already be seen in the first line of the first stanza. "Out of the night that covers me," wherein the "night" the dreariest juncture of the day and so the author compared it to sorrow. The night symbolizes the hindrance or barrier to the person which makes him suffer.
The next metaphorical use is line 10 in the third stanza "Looms but the Horror of the shade," where "shade" symbolizes a looming unanticipated occurrence in someone's life. Another in the third stanza, "And yet the menace of the years/ Finds and shall find me unafraid". The phrase of the 11th line "menace of the years" implies that of culmination or the coming of age and even if that comes, he is not afraid.
…show more content…
For some reason, he may have intentionally capitalized the word Pit to signify "Hell" which is the most oppressive place that can be. The next form of imagery seen is in the eight line that is in the second stanza that goes, "My head is bloody but unbowed" explains how he is in the part of his life where he is in a deceitful circumstance but in spite of it, he remains strong and