Allusion In Tim Buckley's Song To The Sirens Song

“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey tells the story of a psychiatric ward in Oregon through a schizophrenic patient named Chief Bromden, and how his world as well as the lives of those like him take a dramatic turn after Randle McMurphy, a conman, is introduced into the ward. The novel makes heavy use of symbolism in order to continue the biblical allusions that are introduced early on in the novel. The biblical allusions used in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” are the crucifixion of Jesus in the form of the Shock Shop, and a savior of the sinned in Randle McMurphy.

In “Song to the Siren,” Tim Buckley cries out, “…let me enfold you/ Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you” (Buckley). This lyric illustrates how the speaker longs to love and be loved by the woman, yet something is stopping

Male seducers are represented as boys sowing their oats -- part of normal living. Seduced females are viewed as weak and treacherous --  a treachery that woman in her "frailty" is unable to avoid. This is a very bizarre message.

These three brides represent the femme fatale, the fatal woman. The over sexualised women whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. These women serve as monstrous reminders of what happens if the boundaries of proper behaviour and traditional gender roles are crossed. These women, although beautiful, possess the wrong type of beauty, one of which brands them as evil, openly sexual and seductive women. Who, in addition lack the chaste passivity and fragility of the ideal Victorian lady, thus making them deserving of some form of punishment in order for them to be returned to their pure, innocent, albeit dead, human form.

During the twelfth century women were not really given a voice and were basically limited to what their husbands chose to do. The fact that women were not able to go out and express themselves already gives us a visual of how imprisoned they must have felt. This is exactly what Marie does so well in her poem of the Nightingale, in that the lady was only able to see her lover from afar and was never able to meet in person. Also in this poem, the knight the women was married to was depicted as being a mean man, and Marie uses words like “wrath” and “malice” to describe the knight. While many readers are yearning for her to be with the man that she really loves, we glance over the idea that she does not have a choice. This is exactly what I mean in how she gives a double entendre, she is telling a story that engages readers while simultaneously showing us how life was like back then. However, there were a few incidents were women did gain power and severed as an influence for patrons for the

a.) ANSWER: The emotional responses that the artist seeks to arouse in their intended audience are pride and lust. The reason I think that is because every young man wants to defend a woman in some point in their life. They want to be the woman’s night and shining armor; the young men want to save their ladies.

The artist wants the audience to feel his substantial affection for Delilah, and how it is unchanging even though they are separated by distance. He appeals to the audience’s emotions of admiration, compassion, and longing for another person. The artist does this by singing about his extensive love for Delilah, which may lead people to think of someone they themselves care deeply about, or an example of love in their life.

In applying this image to a female, and especially to a female playing a role in the realm of relationships gives the idea new meaning. To think of a woman as a siren is to impose the notion that she lures men into a trap to play with them, almost as a cat would toy with a mouse. Atwood's siren describes her song as, "…The song that forces men / to leap overboard in squadrons / even though they see the beached skulls," (ll 4-6). With those words, Atwood describes exactly the effect that this songstress has on her victims. It is as if those men that are lured into her clutches are well aware of the consequences of their involvement with her - as they can very well see the "beached skulls" - yet they cannot resist the temptation she presents. Just as the seafarers were to be broken on the rocks of the island inhabited by the sirens, the men that involve themselves with this modern-day siren will also be destroyed. The song remained the same over the centuries, lethal and beautiful as ever.

Ayn Rand created a fiction novella, Anthem, in which she reveals the notions of freedom, egoism, and individualism. She sets up the main persona in the story, Equality 7-2521, to discover the concealed egoism in the dystopian society where all individuals was identified as equal ones. Throughout the piece, Rand employs an adequate blend of symbolism and allusion, a confessional tone, and change in personal pronouns to clarify her primary purpose of her writing, the individualism.

kind,” (line 16) and “An’ almost lose ma mind.” (line 17). Finally he shows us his complete

Your first thought is the love between the couple is toxic and lethal yet, he cannot resist his partner. But, really it is a reference to Cocaine. Cocaine is given a female voice. He uses personification by bringing the drug to life, where it can communicate with him and become part of his life. He knows that this “girl” meaning, Cocaine is going to be the death of him. While in use of Cocaine he gets numb. “But at least we’ll both be beautiful and stay forever young/ This I know, (yeah) this I know” (3-4). You say again, that he is singing about how the love is so very satisfying. But he is actually meaning that his desire for this young and beautiful woman makes him feel good. He feels as if he is invincible when he has her. Even though he seems to be aware of the consequences that come with feeling young and beautiful; with the use of Cocaine. “She told me, ‘Don’t worry about it.’/ She told me, ‘Don’t worry no more.’/ We both knew we can’t go without it/ She told me you’ll

He knew nat Catoun for his wit was rude, that bad man sholde wedde his similitude” (Lines 113-120). Absolon on the other hand just wanted sex, and as much Alisoun despised him he would not stop stalking her. The Miller’s tale is cynical, because love is either misguided or lust and humans often are confused between the two. The author wanted to point that humans must know the difference or else the outcome would most likely be devastating thus leading to one’s own fault. While others might say this theme was not about love, but more about sexual desires, it was not the case. Sexual desires was only part of the theme because sex has always been alined with love in every relationship good or bad. Chaucer want readers to get past the sexual imagery and look at the love theme which incorporated in this story. The love theme represented the trouble behind human minds and how lust can be confused as love.

This quote can relate into today's temptations because of how the music nowadays tempt kids to be like the people that sing the music today. For example rap music these days is crucial . I think it makes kids and teens think it is ok to do drugs and curse. Another quote is ,“The lovely voices in ardor appealing over the water made me crave to listen…”. This quote is saying the music the sirens make will make him want to her more.

The themes of both poems show the complete mental consumption of the voice’s. Their pre-dominative behaviour appears to emerge from perverted good values. The paranoid voice of a woman, angered with her supposed cheating husband runs throughout the duration of ‘Medusa,’ seeming to grow in anger as it meets every line. In addition, Carol Ann Duffy creates an extended metaphor of this women’s transformation into the monstrous character ‘Medusa,’ using members present in Greek mythology, in order to paint a metaphorical juxtaposition of a once beautiful woman, now a hideous ‘gorgon’ due to the impact of detrimental human emotion. Detrimental emotion being, as shown by the phrase: ‘My brides breath soured, stank,’ with the use of sensory imagery demonstrating how a slight ‘suspicion’ has taken hold of the voice. Moreover, this build-up and outpour of the slight ‘suspicion’ and emotion over the poem suggests that the voice has succumbed to and has allowed herself

without warning”. Then in the third stanza, where he illuminates the allure of letting go of