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In that verse form, Henley gave a world the familiar phrases "my head is bloody, but unbowed" & "I am the master of my fate". These lines keep close at hand been quoted numbers of days by humans world health organization might not understand their source. It seem the hyperbolic epitome of the "stiff upper lip" that popular culture has made the traditional British virtue, & the convenient image of stoicism in the face of disaster.

In the United States, this poem has get popular among paratroopers, many of whom commit it to memory to give the two emotional trend lines should it get the prisoner of war.

In the climax of the 1942 film ''King's Row'', the poem is recited by Parris Mitchell (Robert Cummings) to friend Drake McHugh (Ronald Reagan) in an effort to overcome the latter's depression following a permanent injury.

These are besides a title of an album per Large Metal band Virgin Steele who use occasional lines of the verse form when lyrics on the album.

Outlaw United states Music singer/songwriter David Allan Coe as well known as a 1980 album fallowing the verse form, calling it "Invictus Means Unconquered," reprinting a verse form on the back sleeve, coupled by using an original verse form apparently meant as an court, & family watch-higher, to the Henley original.

A verse form recently gained farther ill fame by existence quoted per American terrorist Timothy McVeigh, who quoted it within the communiqué freed shortly prior to his execution for murder committed in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Additional recently, American terrorist Eric Rudolph alluded to the poem when in court for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 20, 2005, stating, "By the grace of God, I am still here -- a little bloodied, but emphatically unbowed."