Question

In Invictus poem what does the word 'shade' imply in third stanza​

Answer 1

Answer:

In this line from Henley's poem, "the shade" is death. So the "horror of the shade" is the horror of death. And it is the horrors of death (as he puts it) that are all that looms after this life (this place of "wrath and tears."

Answer 2

Answer:In this poem the word ‘shade’ is referred to death or the misfortune faced by each people. But here the word is utilized as death during a misfortune but even through the hardship Invictus can find hope and he always thanks God for giving him such kind of soul.

Explanation: The main and original meaning of shade is death but the main moral or topic is unconquerable soul one can achieve by finding hope in the most darkest time or zone of life one could possibly go through .