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The Odyssey is one of the oldest pieces in literature and is still well known today because of it being orally passed down from person to person. This epic poem is very well known but no one actually knows who actually wrote it. Artists like John Williams Waterhouse painted scenes from the Odyssey like Ulysses and the Sirens to better show what was happening in the poem. Margaret Atwood also uses her poem “Siren Song” to give a different perspective on the epic poem. In the painting Ulysses and the

“I’d waited an eternity for this. I’d have waited all over again if I had to. I was meant to kiss this boy, designed to be held by him. All the careful postures I held melted away, and I pulled him to me, wishing there was a way to be even closer. We were the stars. We were music. We were Time.” (Cass, 193). In the novel The Siren by Kiera Cass, a girl named Kahlen becomes a Siren. A Siren is a person who serves the Ocean for 100 years and never ages and they can’t talk to people because if they

While both poems of the sirens portray the creatures as enticing, admitting to the deadliness of the song they sing (PrPP), Atwood’s rendition, with its perspective entirely from that of a siren herself, paints the sirens as more deceitful in their malevolent (SAT Vocab) coaxing of men, while the sirens of Homer’s classic tale rely more on their beauty and “ravishing voices,” (Homer, 19) utilizing rhetorical appeals to attract sailors (PrPP Parallel Structure). These two poems compare in the continuities

The picturesque siren is invariably familiar to most as a creature of myth and seductive danger. It is through the perspective of such a creature that Margaret Atwood showcases a cruelty that has stereotyped women into having methodical and sinister motives. The “Siren Song” is a rendition of such a type-casted woman who has become bored with tricking and killing men beyond count. In this interpretation, I will analyze “Siren Song” while focusing on the feministic ideology. The title, in itself

The allusion of the Sirens in each of the song lyrics given creates a mood revolving around hopelessness. In both songs, the allusion reinforces the fact that the speaker wants something that they cannot have, similar to the sailors and the Sirens. In “Carolina,” Eric Church sings, “I’d love to see my mama/ Maybe go for a drive/ But I gotta play the star in some little town again tonight” (Church). This signifies the fact that the artist wants to go back to his hometown, but cannot, because his occupation

The poem The Sirens and the episode containing sirens in The Odyssey contain similarities that expose the theme of temptation. For instance, the sirens claim that their “green isle” is a place where one could “rest forevermore” in the poem, and they call to Odysseus as well, telling him how no one had passed the sirens without listening to them, and how they always received “a great treat.” Both of these examples show the sirens deception, how they are trying to fool men into thinking of a beautiful

The Odyssey and Sirens Song In The Odyssey by Homer and in Siren's Song by Margaret Atwood, the sirens are discussed, but are represented very differently. The sirens are said to be the daughters of the river god, Achelous. They sing enchanting songs that lure men to their island. No one knows what the song is though, for every man who’s ever heard it, cannot stop themselves from going to the island. The Odyssey however portrays them much differently than Sirens Song. They have similarities like

Poem: Siren Song, Margaret Atwood https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/32778/siren-song Poetry Explication: Siren Song This poem dramatizes the relationship between men and women, specifically the power that a woman can hold over a man. In the opening lines of the poem, the narrator introduces the reader to her “song,” explaining how irresistible it is and how it “forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see beached skulls” (4-6). She talks about how no one can

The Temptress, Siren The Siren is a very interesting topic of monsters. Their power of seduction when they sing is phenomenal. How they are able to capture their pray without much effort is fascinating. There are many things to discuss about Sirens, such as the history, what they symbolize, the pop culture, and the experts that study Sirens. As you continue to read, you will learn more about these enticing mysterious creatures. The Sirens were first mentioned in a poem called Odyssey

The characters in Greek Mythology can have several different interpretations. Among these characters are the dangerous, yet gorgeous Sirens, bird-women who sit on a cliff singing bewitching songs to captivate the minds of innocent travelers and bring them to their deaths. In Homer’s The Odyssey and Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song,” both poets give different portrayals of the Sirens. Homer believes the Sirens to be irresistible in order to establish men as heroes whereas Atwood depicts them as unsightly