I am the captain of my soul."
It was first published in the collection "In Hospital," written while the poet was seeking out Joseph Lister's help in saving the leg above his amputated foot. Despite an assertion of afterlife in the final verse, the speaker agnostically thanks "whatever gods may be" during a night that is "Black as the Pit from pole to pole." Vowing not to fear "the menace of the years" or the "fell clutch of circumstance," this poem instead presents the image of a head "bloody, but unbowed." For ten points, name this William Ernest Henley poem which concludes "I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul."
It was first published in the collection "In Hospital," written while the poet was seeking out Joseph Lister's help in saving the leg above his amputated foot.
“{Invictus}”