Compare The Sirens In Book 12 Of The Odyssey

Through the imagery of both Homer and Margaret Atwood we see the difference in the Siren’s attitude in each poem. In The Odyssey, the Siren says, “honeyed voices pouring from our lips.” This imagery is a seductive tactic used by the Siren to lure the men closer. Odysseus tells us that his heart wanted more. This shows how the desire to get closer to the Siren was toxic. In “Siren Song” the Siren uses imagery to mock herself and make the reader feel bad for her. She tells us that she is “squatting on the island looking picturesque and mythical.” It is inferred that she is simply unhappy and bored where she is.

The sirens in both texts have different views on the song and how it allures people. They describe what it does to people who come in close proximity of the song.

This poem’s form is clearly adapted to its function because of the one main device that is used to make this poem stand out. The allusion, clearly a reference to the Sirens in “The Odyssey” is the siren’s song itself .The sirens song represents a huge befuddle within readers, and has also been described as the song that nobody has ever heard of because everyone who has heard it has died. This is the most obvious and most notable allusion because according to the lure, Odysseus is tied to the mast of the ship in order to hear the Siren’s Song without jumping overboard (which is what would normally happen due to the songs enchanting power). In this poem, one of the three sirens tells about the song that she sings. Atwood describes in the poem that the anatomy of the song is unknown to all mortals except the sirens themselves. Although, based on the depressing and

The Siren Vase is typical of its time period by showing a clear picture of one of the many adventures Odysseus was met with. We are able to see Odysseus's ship clearly in the sea represented by the thinned black and wavy lines in the narrow foreground of the vase. We can see the picture of Odysseus begging it seems to be untied due to the seductive

In Greek mythology, sirens were sea nymphs who used their sweet song to lure mariners to their death. The nature of the sirens and their origin story prove that most women, in Greek culture, were a depiction of someone who will seduce men and lead them to their doom. Women were the givers of life in an age when the processes of conception, fertility and childbirth were still deeply mysterious and little understood. With this, men wanted women to have a limited role in Greek culture because men feared the power that women have. Even though there were powerful female figures, like Athena and Aphrodite, the majority of women is represented as what men fear and made sure women had a limited role in Greek mythology and society. In Greek culture women were perceived as beautiful creatures who will seduce men, but have nefarious intentions, and the myths of women in Greek culture proving that men always feared the power that women could have.

The Sirens in the Odyssey represent more than just a maritime danger to the passing ship. They are the desires of man that he cannot have. The Sirens can also be construed as forbidden knowledge or some other taboo object. Whatever these singing women actually are, the sailors are wise to avoid them. As usual, the wily Odysseus cheats at the rules of the game by listening to their song under the restraints constructed by his crew.

Homer’s tone towards the Sirens deprecates and objectifies them, while Atwood’s tone towards the Sirens is empathic and woeful, for the purpose of revealing male oppression and its effect on females. Homer describes the Sirens as an experience for the hero’s benefit. The Sirens sing their song to Odysseus, and according to Homer, the song’s purpose is to let man “hear to his heart’s content” and sail away “a wiser man” (Homer 18). The Sirens are merely an experience, an object, that a hero grabs on his journey, according to Odysseus. Odysseus is the only one to have “heard the honeyed voices pouring from [their] lips”(Homer 17). Through this imagery, Homer communicates the perspective of Odysseus. He sees women as something to elevate his status

The sirens were compelling Odysseus and his squadron with their extraordinary singing .Odysseus and his squadron were on there way home. As well as portraying the similarities there are also differences. There are many converse things including:they were in a car instead of a boat,the women were mean versus them being nice and they were at a creek versus them being at the river. In the movie “O’ brother where art tho?”

First, In the movie clip “O Brother Where Art Thou” and in Homer’s epic The Odyssey, there were a few similarities. In both of the sources, there were sirens that sang a harmonious tune. Also, the sirens were women in the text and in the movie clip. It states in Homer’s epic that the women

In the epic poem The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus has been told his prophecy and has been given instructions and advice. A problem he encounters is making an effort and being smart on how to resist the fatal music sang by the Sirens. In the English translation of the episode Odysseus is the one telling the story in first person, where a Siren describes how it feels about the story she produces. Odysseus is a smart man who knew what he had to do to go past the Sirens and fatal song. When Odysseus and his crew were in their positions for the plan they had, the Sirens try to convince and seduce the men to get closer and listen to the song.

Half naked woman, the sirens are pretty attractive. In Homer's poem, The Odyssey has a variety of different way's The Odyssey is told. Although the sirens have fabulous looks, they can be deceiving. Their beautiful music can lure men to jump of the side of passing boats.

Once the men are drawn to the Sirens, they are stuck and there is no way for them to escape. Additionally, Homer explains Odysseus’ encounter with the Sirens from Odysseus’ point of view. The Sirens try to attract Odysseus by singing compliments to “famous Odysseus,” so he will assume he is the object of their desire (14). The Sirens are intelligent, and therefore determine what Odysseus’ true weaknesses: flattery and the desire for recognition. His faults are similar to other men; however no other men share Odysseus’ unique wish. When Odysseus sails by, they attack his weaknesses, just as they do to the other ships, but Odysseus already is prepared. The Sirens sing to him and promise he will be able to “[sail] on a wiser man” if Odysseus listens to their song (18). His plan almost fails because the song captivates Odysseus and, thus, attempts to join the Sirens, risking his life to gain the knowledge that the Sirens guarantee. Odysseus navigates himself through the sea with hopes of becoming more intelligent. Homer describes the Sirens as beautiful yet cunning because of their ability to identify men’s weaknesses easily. Their beauty attracts men and thus draws them toward their death. Homer’s view of the relationship between Odysseus and the Sirens prove that the Sirens are extremely tempting and the men cannot help but fall for them.

In Homer's Odyssey, the sirens are introduced as sea nymphs. Margaret Atwood's wrote a poem called "Siren Song" that offers a quite different and similar perspective on the sirens. In the Odyssey the sea nymphs are illustrated as beautiful and deceitful creatures who happily consume the lives of sailors with their beautiful songs. This can be seen when Homer states that as soon as the sirens saw the ship they, "...burst into their high thrilling song" and when the sirens themselves state, "Never has any sailor passed our shores... until he has heard the honeyed voices pouring from our lips...".

Greek mythology is often the source of inspiration for many fields of art and literature. One of the most used, Ulysses and the Sirens, has been part of many different visual and textual works. In the myth Ulysses and the Sirens, Ulysses, on his ten year voyage home from the Trojan War, is tied to the mast of the ship while his crew has stuffed their ears with wax so that they can avoid hearing the sirens’ song. In the painting Ulysses and the Sirens, John William Waterhouse uses the Sirens to show that people in this world will do anything to have things the way they want them to be, while in his poem “Siren Song,” Margaret Atwood uses the same scene to show that in this world people are manipulative and cunning when they are jealous of

First, in the Waterhouse painting of Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, the differences concerning the Sirens dealt with their geographic location. The text stated,”These