The Colossus

In ”The Colossus”, the speaker imagines her dead father as the Greek sun-god, and she struggles to repair the broken pieces of the huge statue of the Colossus who is now a floating drowned man. Speaker wants to repair her inner world as she hopes that the fragments of her beloved father will be reassembled within her self. However, since she cannot reinstate the external loved object successfully, she also cannot regain the loved internal object. The process of reparation is not successful.