Faun
Sylvia Plath * Track #7 On The Colossus and Other Poems
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- #7Faun
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Faun by Sylvia Plath
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The poem begins as a story of a faun but then it is revealed that this faun is actually a man. Just as the reader thinks they understand who he is, he (re)transforms into a faun.
This creates a sense of circularity to the poem, and explores a sense of the entanglement between internal nature and re...
Faun Annotated
Haunched like a faun, he hooed
From grove of moon-glint and fen-frost
Until all owls in the twigged forest
Flapped black to look and brood
On the call this man made.
No sound but a drunken coot
Lurching home along river bank.
Stars hung water-sunk, so a rank
Of double star-eyes lit
Boughs where those owls sat.
An arena of yellow eyes
Watched the changing shape he cut,
Saw hoof harden from foot, saw sprout
Goat-horns. Marked how god rose
And galloped woodward in that guise.
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Who wrote Faun's ?
Faun was written by Sylvia Plath.