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'Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle, / Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. / Thirty years now I have laboured / To dredge the silt from your throat' Sylvia Plath uses which metaphor in these lines from her poem, 'The Colossus'?

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A metaphor states that one thing is something else. 


'Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle, / Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. / Thirty years now I have laboured / To dredge the silt from your throat' <br>Sylvia Plath uses which metaphor in these lines from her poem, 'The Colossus'?






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