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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780375704468
ISBN: 0375704469
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: May 19, 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 19, 1998
Sales Rank: 121997
Studio: Vintage
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With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as 'The Beekeeper's Daughter,' 'The Disquieting Muses,' 'I Want, I Want,' and 'Full Fathom Five,' she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock.
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Rating:  - Exploring Plath's early work
Sylvia Plath is well reputed as a poet. Her untimely death, at too early an age, silenced her poetic voice. This book represents one of her early works.
Her poetry is not beautiful or lyric or elegiac. There is a hardness, almost a clinical coldness, to the verses, and some dark themes recur. And some odds poems based on intriguingly selected facts.
Of the latter. . . . A stone coffin from the 4th century AD in Cambridge (England) contains skeletons of a woman, a mouse, ... Read More
Rating:  - Genius' Magnet
"Compelled by calamity's magnet/They loiter and stare" begins the poem "Aftermath" by Sylvia Plath in "The Colossus." In this striking collection of living language, Plath gives us a hearty portion of her verbose verse. "The Colossus and Other Poems" was written when Plath was heavy on the thesaurus, and it shows. These poems are so rife with description that one feels the need to read them several times over.
Compared to Ariel, "The Colossus" is meticulous, planned, deliberate. While ... Read More
Rating: - does not make the art of writing good poems seem easy
The Colossus," from what I understand, was Plath's first published collection of poetry. During this early phase of Plath's career, she still treated the act of writing poetry as a laborious and painstaking process, often diligently lookig up words in the thesaurus and then inserting many synonyms of one word into a single composition. This rather pedantic attitude toward poetry shows in these poems, many of which devoutly adhere to difficult rhyme schemes (albeit frequently using slant rhymes) and ... Read More
Rating: - Unacknowledged Classic
Not Plaths's most famous book, obviously, but quite arguably her best, Colossus is cool and totally controlled. Here Plath finally refines what she had started doing from teenhood -- please consult the juvenelia in Collected Poems to confirm this. Images of distant objectivity are chosen as pivots for the most intimate meditations, physical and personal. The "I" is often seen as if under a microscope, to a degree beyond what was earlier achieved by her tutor confessional poets such as Robert Lowell. ... Read More
Rating: - not for inexperienced readers
I was quite angered by the comment that Daddy is a long babble of a poem and that The Colossus misses the mark. Daddy is one of the most moving creative poems written by Plath. There is a beauty in a poets first book. She was writing for herself. I would like to inform the readers properly on this one and say it's a must have for any Plath fan or fan of poetry. I myself dabble in the writing of it, and at that I would not call myself an expert. I do however believe myself to be well read and this is at ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780375704468
ISBN: 0375704469
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: May 19, 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 19, 1998
Sales Rank: 121997
Studio: Vintage