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The Colossus | The Poetry Foundation. 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.
- Emma Lazarus
Is any poem more of a public institution than “The New...
- Wreath for a Bridal
Wreath for a Bridal - The Colossus - Poetry Foundation
- Dream with Clam-Diggers
Dream with Clam-Diggers - The Colossus - Poetry Foundation
- Strumpet Song
By Sylvia Plath. Strumpet Song. By Sylvia Plath. JSTOR and...
- Emma Lazarus
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. 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. Thirty years now I have labored.
‘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. 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 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.
