The Classical World
The speaker weaves a bunch of references to the classical world into the poem. Greek tragedies, architecture, fallen empires, the Colossus itself—all of these mentions place the poem in a really...
Body Parts
While taking us on a tour of her ruined statue, the speaker also gives us a bit of an anatomy lesson. In almost every stanza, she finds clever ways to weave in mentions of the various stone body pa...