Sirens

Sirens are often viewed as birds with heads of women who have dashing voices. In both poems and separate perspectives the reader gets a closer view of what a Siren actually is and how the authors want them to be seen. In the Odyssey and the “Siren Song”, point of view, tone and imagery define how the Sirens’ portrayal. Some differences and similarities help the reader view them. Both poems share a first person point of view and their authors use different examples to portray the Sirens. In the Odyssey

In all three works of art, the epic poem (The Odyssey), Atwood’s poem (“Siren Song”), and Waterhouse’s Ulysses & The Sirens, all portray the Sirens differently by the author's tone. Waterhouse uses art to set the dramatic and threatening tone while The Odyssey uses poetry to set the dramatic tone. The tone of Atwood’s poem depicts the Sirens as being mischievous yet bored. First, Waterhouse uses art to portray the Sirens as dramatic and threatening by the choice of the colors used. Odysseus is dressed

multifaceted nature of the myth of the Sirens through various perspectives, with varying tones, and utilizing imagery. Homer recounts the narrative of a man sufficiently shrewd to hear the siren's tune and not lose his life; meanwhile Atwood portrays a siren, alluring men to her island to trap them. Although the tones differentiate from each other within the two passages, both utilize cleverness with trickery. Odysseus runs with his life secure, and the Siren feels accomplished; her “boring song…works

This story, “The Siren” revolves around the ocean, and girls with a forbidden secret. In this book, The Ocean feeds off humans during drownings, with the help of girls called sirens. The Ocean has the power to hand-pick girls to stay alive, while devouring the rest. Sirens are resurrected women that use their poisonous voices to kill souls. They can choose to live for an extra 100 years and be held captive by The Ocean, or choose to die. After the 100 years are paid, their memory is swept, and they

women (n = 6,790) and 23% of men (n = 7,122) experienced physical, sexual, or psychological IPV (Intimate partner violence) during their lifetime.”(Cite???) In Atwood’s “Siren Song” the speaker plays the role of an abuser and forces the reader be exposed to an abusive relationship. Margaret Atwood uses language in her poem “Siren Song” to reveal the sinister tone of the speaker and to communicate an abusive relationship. First off, Atwood uses a variety of language and language devices to portray

The poem Siren Song by Margaret Atwood follows the narrative of a siren, a mythical creature known for drawing sailors in with their singing and leading them towards death. The siren is not content with her life “squatting on an island/ looking all picturesque and mythical.”. She calls the song, which she uses to lure sailors in, a boring song. She stated at the end that, though she does not like the song, “it works every time,” so she must resort to it. The poem describes the siren song as a cry

literature on a similar topic, such as Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song” and Homer’s depiction of sirens in “The Odyssey”. In Greek literature and mythology, Sirens were a commonly reoccuring mythical creature. They were often described as half bird and half woman, and they would lure nearby sailors to shipwreck on the coast of their island with their enchanting music and voices. Although both authors are writing about the same subject, the way that the sirens are portrayed differs, perhaps this is likely due

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

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,”

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