That was Rhetorical
”I crawl like an ant in mourning”
Simile
Poetry that doesn't use any strict meter or rhyme scheme
Freeverse
The statue that stood at the harbor of Rhodes, Greece. Also the name sake of the poem.
Colossus of Rhodes
Admitting defeat the writer tries to put the statue back together.
The writer never got to fully know their father and tries to gather a complete memory of someone they never knew very well.
A longitudinal structure along the centerline at the bottom of a vessel's hull. To turn over on its side.
Keel
“My hours are married to shadow”
Metaphor
A literary technique not used in stanzas 1-3, but is used in stanzas 4-6
Enjambment
The center of day to day life in Ancient Rome; used as an allusion to how the writer feels about their fathers death.
The Roman Forum
The colossus itself; both physical and non-physical
The writers father and memory of the father
Brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning
Pithy
A literary technique used across the entire poem that relates the colossus statue to the writers father.
Extended Metaphor
A poetic form or stanza that contains five lines
Quintain or Quintet
A trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE; Alluding to a daughter mourning her father’s death.
The Oresteia
How the writer ends the poem; what the metaphor actually means
The writer ends the poem by coming to terms that they will never truely remember the whole their father and become content with what they have.
Dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent.
Bawdy