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Reading Text 2<br />

Motive Question: What does a person go through when faced with challenging<br />

situations?<br />

Invictus<br />

William Ernest Henley<br />

Out of the night that covers me,<br />

Black as the pit from pole to pole,<br />

I thank whatever gods may be<br />

For my unconquerable soul.<br />

In the fell clutch of circumstance<br />

I have not winced nor cried aloud.<br />

Under the bludgeonings of chance<br />

My head is bloody, but unbowed.<br />

DRAFT<br />

And yet the menace of the years<br />

Finds and shall find me unafraid.<br />

April 10, 2014<br />

Beyond this place of wrath and tears<br />

Looms but the Horror of the shade,<br />

It matters not how strait the gate,<br />

How charged with punishments the scroll,<br />

I am the master of my fate,<br />

I am the captain of my soul.<br />

Questions to answer<br />

1. What does it mean to be unconquered?<br />

2. What is the setting of the poem?<br />

3. What is the persona’s attitude toward the predicament that he is in?<br />

4. What is his resolution?<br />

5. Why do you think was this Nelson Mandela’s favorite poem while he was in<br />

jail for 27 years?<br />

6. How did the movie with the same title show the poem’s sentiment?

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