Invictus

In "Invictus", which of the following inferences about the speaker is best supported by the following stanza?

"Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid." (Henley"

1. The speaker is angry about his fate.

2. The speaker is very frightened of death.

3. The speaker believes that everything will work out.

4. The speaker is not entirely optimistic.

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None of these really match. The poem speaks to a stoicism of the speaker. He is ready to weather any storm that prison brings him. You might consider #3.