1. Invictus by William Ernest Henley
... ; Henley's' sardonic capitalisation purpose is to not only visually quantity and personify death, with "Horror of the Shade" referencing the shadowy apparition of the Grim Reaper. As mentioned before, this technique to personify "the Shadow" or Death, is a sardonic use of a pre-existing archetype of Death, a grim reaper to be feared and avoided. Instead, Henley accepts the ... ...
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