The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia PlathMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Oh Sylvia... So much pain, and darkness! Poems about a wave-rocked corpse (suicide, of course) and an ode to a streetwalker. Still, maybe I am old-fashioned or some unevolved poetry reader, but I yearn for rhythm and rhyme. Also, Plath's twenty-five cent words for me take more away from the poem than add (and I feel I have a large vocabulary) such as in the tile piece: "acanthine hair" and "Oresteia". Unclear verbiage in a poem interrupts like a footnote.
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