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The Colossus. By Sylvia Plath. I shall never get you put together entirely, Pieced, glued, and properly jointed. Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles. Proceed from your great lips. It’s worse than a barnyard. Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.
‘The Colossus’ by Sylvia Plath is a complex poem that expresses the poet’s sorrow after her father’s death through the image of a statue. The statue, which is based on a real creation from Rhodes in 280 BC, is in ruins.
In six stanzas, each comprising five lines, Sylvia Plath explores her relationship with her dead father through the symbol of a statue, the giant Colossus of Rhodes (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World).
“The Colossus” by Sylvia Plath is composed of several stanzas, each rich with literary techniques, syntax, diction, and figurative language. Here, we’ll dissect these elements stanza by stanza to uncover deeper meanings and themes.
Sylvia Plath. Track 9 on The Colossus and Other Poems. First published in Colossus and Other Poems in 1960, the speaker of this poem visits [The Colossus of Rhodes], ( and laments over it,...
The Colossus and Other Poems is a poetry collection by American poet Sylvia Plath, first published by Heinemann, in 1960. It is the only volume of poetry by Plath that was published before her death in 1963.
5 de set. de 2023 · Dive deep into Sylvia Plath's The Colossus with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
