‘Invictus’ is about drawing upon one self’s inner strengths, and discovering what we can achieve in the darkest of times, having the will to survive.
Within the first stanza, the line “the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole” uses a Metaphor to represent the austerity of the world we live in, and the problems that are circumjacent within society. His use of the noun ‘dark’ and ‘night’ imply its negative association with humanity, in particular the hardships that encompass us. This discovery is that all of humanity faces the same challenges as each other, and that we are not alone in our struggle. It implies that we have been shrouded and darkness and misfortune through history, as much with the ‘night’, we face these
Within the first stanza, the line “the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole” uses a Metaphor to represent the austerity of the world we live in, and the problems that are circumjacent within society. His use of the noun ‘dark’ and ‘night’ imply its negative association with humanity, in particular the hardships that encompass us. This discovery is that all of humanity faces the same challenges as each other, and that we are not alone in our struggle. It implies that we have been shrouded and darkness and misfortune through history, as much with the ‘night’, we face these