English - quotes s3

• "Out of the night that covers me" - Struggles and suffering

  - imagery - metaphor - darkness and fear

  
  

  - personification suggests it's closing in on him (covers)

  
  

  - poem starts with thoughts of moving forward
• " and yet the menace of the years" - Struggles and suffering

  - personification of time passing.

  
  

  - menace suggests this can be frightening
• "pit from Pole to pole" - Struggles and suffering

  - trapped in his life

  
  

  - just as a pit is dark and hard to get out of, so too he is stuck in his situation.

  
  

  alliteration - harsh sound echoes his fight against his suffering
• "finds and shall find me unafraid" - determination and perseverance

  - 'f' strong sound repeated, highlighting his strength.

  
  

  - repetition of 'find' emphasises how determined and how strong he is.
• "I have not winced nor cried" - determination and perseverance

  - does not show any pain, he is in control. He has shown not even the tiniest of reaction.

  
  

  - repetition of the negatives highlights his determination to show no weakness.
• "my head is bloody, but unbowed" - determination and perseverance

  - alliteration of the plosive sounds suggests his forceful determination.

  
  

  - word choice - he is weakened but he won't give up.
• "place of wrath and tears" - deciding his own fate and survival

  - word choice - annotations of extreme anger

  
  

  - metaphor for the pain and suffering of life.
• "Strait the gate" - deciding his own fate and survival

  biblical allusion - idea that living virtuously will lead you to heaven
• "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul" - deciding his own fate and survival

  - anaphora - drives home his total conviction that he is in control of his fate, no one else

  
  

  - he is in charge - steering his own metaphorical ship
• iambic tetrameter

  8 beats per line
• "it matters not" - inversion

  inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)
• ABAB rhyme scheme - "me ... be"

  mirrors his un-waving determination