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Sirens In The Odyssey

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Sirens play a big role in the epic poem of The Odyssey by Homer. These sirens try and lure in the sailors and capture their attention with their majestic voices. Odyssey gives his men beeswax to cover their ears while they row so that the voices of the sea nymphs wouldn't get to them. In the Odyssey Odysseus portrays the sirens as something he needs to try and avoid because if he doesn't something bad could happen to him and his men. The poem is seen in Odysseus' point of view and how even with this beeswax covering his ears he still wants to be set free. In the Siren song written by Margaret Atwood, Atwood uses imagery to depict the image of the sirens. The Sirens says "...the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even

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