The colossus poem analysis

A blue sky sits above the speaker, and the statue and the narrator notice that her father seems like a concise and historical as the Roman forum. On top of the hill, the poet sees the statute’s bones and hair being thrown about to the horizon in a wild manner and notes that even powerful lightning cannot cause such a disaster. The poet’s Colossus father has fallen, and she desperately dedicates herself to restoring her father’s greatness and power. Typically, the poem indirectly refers to the Colossus of Rhodes. In the ancient Greek, the Colossus represented a deceased person; coincidentally, in the poem, the poet’s father had died. The crumbled ruins of the Colossus represent the poet’s father, who despite his greatness and power, is unable to come to her aid when she most looks up to him for help.

She has sacrificed her life waiting to hear the statue speak but after some time, conforms to it. She relentlessly tries to piece her father back together so that the Colossus can at least once again live and take away the fears she has in facing the world as an individual, as well as also silence the one to whom she writes the poem as the mouthpiece of the dead. Due to the monument of her father, she may expect him to come back to life and offer her assistance and shelter to the uncertainties of living in this world (Lane 56). However, it seems impossible the father back to life, and the poet is left with no choice but to accept the current state of matters and move on with life.