i am the master of my fate and the captian of my soul
2006-09-15 09:16:42 · 29 answers · asked by nans85 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It's from the poem 'Invictus' by William Ernest Henly:
...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.
It's interesting that Timothy McVey uttered these very words before he was executed for the bombing of the Edward R Murrow federal building in Oklahoma. These words can be looked upon as words of defiance, meaning I bow my head to no one and am in charge of my own fate.
Or they can be seen as the poet meant them to be seen. Invictus means unconquered. The poem was inspired by Henley's struggle to overcome every obstacle thrown at him in the form of depression and crippling disease as well as being disadvantaged by poverty. I thing God gives us choices and what we choose determines our fate.
2006-09-15 09:40:09 · answer #1 · answered by Sweet Mystery of Life 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well an very inspiring and enthusiastic phrase
As you have raised the question can i ask you after all who is the master and who is the captian.
2006-09-15 16:22:46 · answer #2 · answered by dubai chaser 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently the person who wrote it doesn't know much about eternity. No, fate is not set in stone or anything like that, but your soul is either God's or Satan's. If it isn't God's, it's satan's. Simple as that.
2006-09-15 16:20:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only you have control of your own actions or "fate", no one can take that away from you unless you let them, you are a free agent in control of nothing but the way you respond and act
2006-09-15 16:26:13 · answer #4 · answered by BrittyGirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I make the decisions that cause "fate" to happen. I am the captain of my soul. Makes me think of how beatiful ones soul can be.
2006-09-15 18:25:59 · answer #5 · answered by revieskid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though this quote applies to each and every one of us, there are very few good masters or good captains.
Simply put, to me this means RESPONSIBILITY.
I have the power to influence my fate and the state of my soul.
With a word, a look, yes even a thought, I affect those around me.
They affect those around them, and so on and so on and . . . . .
I have the POWER !!! (in fact we ALL do) to affect the very world around me.
With power comes responsibility.
Since I influence the world around me,
I am responsible to and for the world around me.
I create the world around me.
AND SO DO YOU !!!
What an awesome responsibility!
2006-09-15 16:53:21 · answer #6 · answered by mdv 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means you are in control of your own destiny by the choices you make in life. According to your choices that is the direction your soul will take.
2006-09-15 16:20:38 · answer #7 · answered by june clever 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I control my fate and I am my own soul.
2006-09-15 17:46:07 · answer #8 · answered by Cara Arlene 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means the writer was delusional---none of us have any ultimate control over our fates---we are all subject to "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."
2006-09-15 16:18:53 · answer #9 · answered by Harris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm what is a captian?
2006-09-15 22:15:30 · answer #10 · answered by djbred18 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋