The Colossus-WR-

“The Colossus” is written by Sylvia Plath in 1959. I think she compares colossus to her father. “The Colossus” has six stanzas (of thirty) which is cinquains. From the first stanza, the colossus is taking apart and it seems unable to be repaired. Also I think “Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles” (Line 3) is the sound that she hears from the conversation with her father in her dream. From the second stanza “ I am none the wiser” explains how she does not understand who he is because her father was taken from her too early to share his wisdom with her. From the third stanzas “I crawl like an ant in mourning” (Line 12), she describes herself as ants and it makes the image of the colossus even larger which gives me an image of authoritative. Not only giving the colossus larger image, she also describes it ugly. Also from the last stanza “My hours are married to shadow” (Line 28), I think she did not wanted to be exposed to the sunlight because the sunlight shines the tongue of the colossus which reminds the sounds that she wrote in line 3 in first stanza. I think the last stanza also connected to the first stanza because she will hear voice again from the colossus someday.