I think this poem ment so much to Mandela because it reminds him about the hard times he faced in jail. He always had faith and never gave up.
"My head is bloody, but unbowed".
In the prison Mandela may have been beaten for standing up in what he believes in but he always held his head up high.
"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".
This may remind him how terrible it was to spend all that time alone in jail yet he never gave up and never planned to.
"I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul"
This is the last line in the poem and I think it is self explanitory. Nelson Mandela will let no one tell him how to live his life. This is why he was and is still so successful!
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