Perseverance In William Ernest Henley's 'Invictus'

It is exam week and a guy is stressed out of his mind about it. He needs to do good to get scholarships for his college, but is so worried. He needs to persevere and fight through the stress. Stress happens in a lot of people's lives and persevering past it is a good trait to have. Perseverance is a common topic throughout many poems. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “The rose that grew from concrete” by Tupac both convey the message that being able to persevere will help get through challenging parts of life.
Through “Invictus,” William Ernest Henley convers that being able to persevere will help get through challenging parts of life. The use of simile expresses this theme because it compares two things to create an extreme example. William Ernest Henley writes, “Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole” (1-2). He compares the

The use of a metaphor shows the reader that the rose beat the odds and grew from the concrete. Tupac writes, “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?” (1-2). The rose is Tupac himself, or someone else who is struggling, and him growing from the concrete is him being successful even after being raised in the ghetto. The rose is a beautiful thing that is being held back by the concrete, but still thrives through it. The rose is a symbol of hope for anyone needing it. Another device Tupac uses is personification to show how difficult it was for him to come up from nothing. Tupac writes, “Proving nature’s law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet” (3-4). By saying the rose learned to walk without having feet means that he found a way to be successful without having most of the luxuries that other people have. He had no one to really teach him, he had to figure it out on his own. He went from nothing to something by