The Colossus-VB

The Colossus was written by Sylvia Plath in 1959. The form of the poem is 6 stanzas containing 5 lines each and there is a total of 30 lines of the poem. The tone of the poem is very disheartening and has a feeling of someone who is done and giving up or realizing the fact that they cannot c0omplete or conquer a task. I get this from the first stanza where the writer is talking about never being able to put soemthing together completely. She can be talking about life as a whole or understanding the people in her life. However, the references seem to be talking literaly about a statue which I feel is a metaphor for the ideas listed above. The writer talks about scaling ladders with glue pots and put the image of people building a huge statue or pyramid in ancient times using simplistic ways to do so compared to the tools we have now. The last stanza seems to be where the writer has come accustomed to failure and hardship at this point in her life and no longer trys to solve others' problems or figure out what else she has to do to make the people around her appreciate her.