Years later, during the incarceration of Nelson Mandela — , the words of Invictus helped keep hope alive in the South African leader and his fellow prisoners. The same microbe that ravaged Hensley also affected Mandela near the end of his 27 years of imprisonment.
When taken to a Cape Town hospital on August , Mandela was unable to speak and had hemoptysis. On a humble, nondescript building, Flores created his postmodern mural with spray paint, using sharp black lines and chromatic variations of a brilliant turquoise, with contrasting patches of bright white.
Mandela is depicted wearing one of his signature patterned shirts, and smiling with warmth and determination. The image reminds us that Mandela changed the world with his perseverance and capacity for forgiveness—his smile shining as light through a stained glass window. Prisons often offer near-ideal conditions for TB transmission because security concerns obstruct optimal implementation of infection control. Effective TB control in prisons protects prisoners, staff, visitors and the community at large.
His lasting gift was his power of forgiveness—a gift we remember in his inimitable smile. See the making of the mural www. For more work by the artist, see davidfloresart. Suggested citation for this article : Bloom S. I am the master of my fate. Emerg Infect Dis [Internet]. To start, the poem has an interesting title, Invictus. This Latin word is translated as unconquerable or invincible. What does Looms but the Horror of the shade mean?
In this line from Henley's poem, "the shade" is death. So the "horror of the shade" is the horror of death. And it is the horrors of death as he puts it that are all that looms after this life this place of "wrath and tears. What is meant by the place of wrath and fears? The "place of wrath and tears" refers to the world of the living, in which he is both angry and sorrowful at what he endures as a man with tuberculosis. What lies beyond the pain and suffering of this life is "the Horror of the Shade", in other words, death, in which one becomes a shade or shadow of one's former self.
What is the meaning of Out of the night that covers me? The first stanza of "Invictus" is "OUT of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. Every aspect of their life is like the 'pit' or hell. What does strait the gate mean?
How do you pronounce Invictus? Who said you are the master of your own destiny? Poems Find and share the perfect poems. This poem is in the public domain. O, Gather Me the Rose O, gather me the rose, the rose, While yet in flower we find it, For summer smiles, but summer goes, And winter waits behind it!
For with the dream foregone, foregone, The deed forborne for ever, The worm, regret, will canker on, And time will turn him never. So well it were to love, my love, And cheat of any laughter The death beneath us and above, The dark before and after. The myrtle and the rose, the rose, The sunshine and the swallow, The dream that comes, the wish that goes, The memories that follow!
William Ernest Henley November glooms are barren beside the dusk of June. The summer flowers are faded, the summer thoughts are sere. We'll go no more a-roving, lest worse befall, my dear. We'll go no more a-roving by the light of the moon. The song we sang rings hollow, and heavy runs the tune. Glad ways and words remembered would shame the wretched year.
We'll go no more a-roving, nor dream we did, my dear.
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