What is the author’s emotional state regarding his circumstances, and how does he approach his situation? Use ideas that are directly stated and ideas that you have inferred from clues in the text, citing textual evidence to support both.

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In Invictus by William Ernest Henley , what is the author’s emotional state regarding his circumstances, and how does he approach his situation? Use ideas that are directly stated and ideas that you have inferred from clues in the text, citing textual evidence to support both.

The author is motivated and with hope even in the midst of adverse situations.

Explanation:

In the poem, the author shows how he will not bow his head and surrender to the struggles that life proposes, but that he will face them with strength and certain that nothing will bring him down. In this case, we can see that the author is motivated and wrote an inspiring poem, to give strength even in very difficult moments in life. The author reveals that he is the master of his own destiny and that nothing will take that away.

When researching the moment when the author wrote this poem, we learn that he had recently lost one of his legs. With that, we can see that the author was going through a very difficult and demotivating situation, but he decided that he would go through this moment with his head held high.

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