The phrase in the second stanza i.e. "the fell clutch...circumstance' would stand for:
b). The brutal hold of fate.
- In the given stanza from William Ernest Henley's poem titled "Invictus," the phrase asserting "the fell clutch of circumstance" denotes destiny's vicious grasp over the speaker.
- However, the next line states that even in such a difficult and fatal hold of fate, he did not give up or cry out.
- He just stood up tall before all these challenging events that fate brought to him and straight away denied to bow before the destiny and fought against it with courage.
Thus, option b is the correct answer.
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