The Colossus Flashcards

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  • Another father poem, drawing on the legend of the Colossus of Rhodes, a giant statue that tumbled into the river
  • The first- person speaker describes her efforts to reassemble fragments of him as a way of exploring memories of her father and a lack of closure about his death
  • Composed of six unrhyming quintets
  • Electra complex in evidence
  • Motif of body parts, especially mouth (link to Electra complex)
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Key quotations

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  • ‘I shall never get you put together entirely’
  • ‘Mouthpiece of the dead’
  • ‘Nights, I squat in the cornucopia of your left ear’
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