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A review by tallulahk
The Colossus: And Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
4.0
The writing is stunning and super lyrical; I feel like there's all these layers to the text that I can't understand yet but it's still amazing to read, just for how Plath uses language to convey this incredible body of meaning. It's written in a very personal way, like an inside joke but with ideas and the time period she lived in and her own history. So many of these I feel like there's an explanation or a subtext we're supposed to get that I'm just like not getting, but still like reading them. favorite poems this time around: lorelei, suicide at egg rock, the ghost's leavetaking, the stones
"what i want back is what I was/Before the bed, before the knife,/(...)/Horses fluent in the wind,/A place, a time gone out of mind."
"i dream that i am oedipus" lol
"sun struck the water like a damnation./(...)/And his blood beating the old tattoo/I am, I am, I am."
"Everything glittered like blank paper."
"Dry-eyed, the inveterate patriarch/Raised his men of skin and bone,/Barbs on the crown of gilded wire,/Thorns on the bloody rose-stem."
"This is the kingdom of the fading apparition" it's just so good
"faces blank as the day I was born"
4/5
"what i want back is what I was/Before the bed, before the knife,/(...)/Horses fluent in the wind,/A place, a time gone out of mind."
"i dream that i am oedipus" lol
"sun struck the water like a damnation./(...)/And his blood beating the old tattoo/I am, I am, I am."
"Everything glittered like blank paper."
"Dry-eyed, the inveterate patriarch/Raised his men of skin and bone,/Barbs on the crown of gilded wire,/Thorns on the bloody rose-stem."
"This is the kingdom of the fading apparition" it's just so good
"faces blank as the day I was born"
4/5