A movie was released this past Friday to show the tale, show it did. Starring Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, and directed by Clint Eastwood, I highly suggest the movie.
William Ernest Henley was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the bone at the age of 12. As time went by the illness merely worsened, troubling him academically. As a finishing graduate, doctors told the young man the leg needed to be amputated from the knee down. During recovery Henley wrote this inspiring piece:
Invictus
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.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Invictus, Latin for unconquered, became an essential piece of Nelson Mandela continually motivating him through his presidency of South Africa. Through these words that he held so dear, that were his way of life, he managed to unite a strongly divided South Africa.
A movie was released this past Friday to show the tale, show it did. Starring Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, and directed by Clint Eastwood, I highly suggest the movie.
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