Compare And Contrast Margaret Atwood And The Siren Song

Literary devices are very crucial techniques to an author’s writings because it allows the author to get their message across to the reader in a very powerful way. Some examples of literary devices that allow the author to convey their message in a powerful way to the audience are imagery, tone, and anaphora just to name a few. In Margaret Atwood’s poem “Siren Song,” these literary devices are what make up the foundation of this writing and really allows her poem to almost seem as if it were happening in real life. This poem is about the Sirens from Greek Mythology and how their song would cause sailors to go mad and jump overboard where they would never be seen again. Atwood does a fantastic job at using these literary devices to allow the reader to not only be able to comprehend the poem, but to make them feel as if they are in the poem itself.

In the “Odyssey”, Homer introduces the expedition Odysseus goes through to return to his native land. At one point he and his comrades must take the path that leads them to the island of the Sirens. The notorious sirens sing their sickeningly sweet tune to entice men to their eradication. Poet Atwood depicts the sirens in a calamitous facet. Both Homer and Atwood convey the idea that the Sirens pose a detrimental role through the application of imagery and diction.

The first allusion Henry used in the speech is, the song of the sirens. Henry states, “ We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts”. The song of the siren is an allusion to greek myth, the story tells of Odysseus and the time mystical women tempted him and his crew to death, by attracting them with their beautiful voices. Henry used this allusion to represent that it obvious for humans to hope for something, even when the hope is not reasonable. Yet a person could have such high blind hopes and ignores reality of the situation, therefore ending in the same destiny as those who let themselves be fooled by the sirens who either became beasts or died.

The author use the mockingbird symbolism such as innocence and peacefulness to reveal characteristics about various characters in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Many characters in this novel show the meaning of a mockingbird, but there are some in which their actions and characteristics makes them stand out more. In the novel they state that killing a mockingbird its a sin because all they want to is be happy and sing for everyone can here. That is why kids are allowed to kill blue jays or shoot at cans. Anyone who shoots a mockingbird is committing a sin.

by Mike Belmont describes comparisons to “modern day sirens” and how they deceive people; "Sirens Mythology - Crystalinks." a long presentation that describes the different belief religion wise. "Sirens." describes a few different appearances along with some origin. “The Sirens were beautiful but dangerous creatures that lured the sailors with their beautiful voices to their doom, causing the ships to crash on the reefs near their island.

Odysseus explains his encounter with the Sirens through the use of his own words and point of view. This first person point of view allows the audience to experience the expectation and preparation of a one on three confrontation with the three mythical characters. He portrays them as a sort of contradiction between the beautifully magical and all things destructive and horrid. By using diction, Odysseus enforces this and uses phrases such as “thrilling song” and “honeyed voices,” to describe the Sirens song, setting them up against the images of a rocky sea with “whitecaps.” Likewise, there is evidence of the conflicting nature of the Sirens with the rhythm of the phrase “Sirens sensed at once a ship” and the dissonance of the phrase “Come

Although several people in the book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee symbolizes the mocking bird , I believe Boo Radley strongly emulates the symbol of the MockingBird. Boo Radley is misunderstood by society and seen as a monster or as a scary man, just as the mockingbird was. Although Boo was seen as a threat to society, he never hurt a soul, he shared things with the kids like soap figurines of them. Boo jumped to action when he heard the kids being mugged by mysterious man. Jem says it would be killing a Mockingbird if they persecuted Boo Radley.

When I was reading the first poem “Poetry” by Nikki Giovanni I imagined myself as Morgan Freeman. I could hear his deep unique voice while reading this poem. It gave more soul to the poem. I was speaking to inform a crowd of people on behalf of all lonely poets. I spoke of the main purpose of poetry to show how precious life is.

The poem, “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood, embodies the alluring ideas of Daisy Buchanan. The speaker of the poem describes the song she sings that “forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skulls.” We see Daisy doing the same in The Great Gatsby. She gives Gatsby false promises about how she never loved Tom and that she will divorce Tom in favor of Gatsby. We can almost imagine Gatsby reaching out on his dock towards the green light coming from Daisy’s dock.

The Sirens are half woman, half bird that lure sailors in by singing beautiful hymns. Odysseus orders his men to tie him up to the mast of the ship and don't untie him until they are past the Sirens. His were ordered to stuff their ears with beeswax so that the couldn’t hear anything. Odysseus and his men get past The Sirens without any casualties thanks to the smarts of Odysseus and Circe. Odysseus was once again an archetype hero in this situation.

Odysseus point of view he thinks the sirens are just people trying to kill men. In book 12, he tells his men to put beeswax in there ears so they can 't try to make then kill the whole crew. Odysseus was the only one who didn 't put beeswax in his ear because, he wanted to hear the sirens amazing song. So as they row closer he sirens appear and start to sing. Therefor, Odysseus is tied to a pole and is trying to get loose so he can get

In Waterhouse’s painting, it shows a number of sirens all facing towards Odysseus, who is tied up against a mast, in a position of attack. This could seem threatening because the sirens surround Odysseus so that he may not escape from them. The color of the sirens body is a dark color, which could symbolize how they are dangerous and powerful they are. The painting also shows all the sirens facing Odysseus with a look of anger because he is not falling into their trap as the others have done. Odysseus’ men blends with the boat so the focus is mainly the sirens and Odysseus, which is threatening because it seems as if he is alone with more than two sirens.

Since sirens have fish faces they sing to cause men to fall in love with them, when they kiss them the men are dragged down to the sirens hive. Sirens prefer to keep the men alive on the way down so during they continue to kiss the men until they reach the bottom of the ocean where their hive is located. The reason a siren keeps the men alive is because sirens like to eat their prey while it is still warm and if a siren eats the prey before it gets back to the hive then that siren will become the new

All three text accentuate sundry items. Circe discusses the exquisite sound of the sirens to the various men (Homer). Although the Sirens are inveigling sounds Odysseus ,one of the men on the ship, would like to explore the seraphic sounds. The sounds are very powerful and are beautiful melodies that could put anyone under a horrific spell. This is a comparison to (“O’.

In the poem “Helen” by Hilda Doolittle, and “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood the author shows the non-traditional viewpoint of both poems on characters of Greek Mythology where in “Helen” is about a beautiful and gorgeous woman a demigod who is the daughter of Zeus is hated upon with prejudice by the people around her in Greece, While in “Siren Song” the other is a creature a Siren who cannot stop the fact that her songs kill anyone who hears it, even though she is against the fact her songs keep killing people, and wants to stop it she cannot. In “Helen” by Hilda Doolittle, is about a child of Zeus, named Helen who is a wonderful, beautiful, and gorgeous woman that despite her beauty and wonder is hated by everyone in Greece, for the past actions she has done to them. For example as in the text, “. . . remembering past enchantments and past ills.”