Dec 21, 2009

The Colossus and Other Poems | The Colossus and Other Poems

At a glance:

Author: Sylvia Plath
First Published: 1960
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
Subjects: Parents and children, Folkloric or magical people, Suicide, Poetry or poets, Fathers, Death or dying, Symbolism, Gods or goddesses, Depression, mental, Life and death, Giants, Greece or Greek people, Rome, Statues

Form and Content

The poems of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus and Other Poems are metrically free but stanzaically strict; only rarely does the poet choose the foot over the syllable. That the poems are nevertheless very rhythmic is attributable less to an adroit syllabic measure than to felicitous aural features such as internal rhyme and alliteration. If Plath’s line was only modestly fresh in 1960, her marriage of sound and sense in poetic diction was dramatically innovative and became a hallmark even of her most mature period. The free line is, however, joined almost...

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The Colossus and Other Poems | The Colossus and Other Poems

At a glance:

Form and Content

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