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The Importance Of Life In Life

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Having to struggle through life with many difficult obstacles and problems. Not knowing how to get through the depressing and dark parts within life. This is what people go through on a daily basis, a lot happens during the course of a person's life. But how the actions taken on to becoming a proud and happy person is by the certain, specific choices and hard decisions that are made. This is shown in pieces of texts from the following poems. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes both bring the deep thoughts together that nobody's life is perfect, everyone has struggles within life but there is always a way to get past the difficult times.
Throughout “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley he proves that no matter how dark and hard the past has been there’s always a way to get past it. The use of the literary term imagery is shown in this poem because it describes how gloomy and depressing it is. The evidence states, “out of the night that covers me” as well as “Looms but the Horror of the shade” (Henley 1, 10). This is clearly showing that it is a depressing time taken place in the speaker's life. Most everyone can relate and picture this because life is not easy. The literary device of imagery represents the theme because it is about difficult and depressing times in life and it is used to make the reader feel and picture the “darkness.” This is mainly used at the beginning of the poem to set the tone of the whole poem and what the reader

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