"It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
David Nutt
Date
1888
Metaphor
"It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
Metaphor in Context
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
(ll. 13-6)
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
(ll. 13-6)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely
Citation
William Ernest Henley, Poems (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920): 83-84. <Link to RPO>
Date of Entry
04/20/2011
Date of Review
06/05/2011
