TripleHate Reads: The Colossus (Sylvia Plath)

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In this haunting poem, the titular selection from the only volume of poetry Sylvia Plath published within her lifetime, the speaker is juxtaposing being a caretaker of the ruins of the Colossus of Rhodes to a relationship with a deceased father, and how the lingering image of those gone both weighs on and comforts us...



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