The Theme Of Death In The Siren Song By Margaret Atwood

The poem “The Sirens” explores the whole theme of death and the men who can’t help but focus on their work. Atwood turns the theme of prerator on its head making the sirens call for help is similar to death.That’s some for thought that the next time you decide to take a cruise and spot a bird women perched delicately above an island of human skullsand large mountains. In the painting Ulysses and the Sirens, James William Waterhouse uses the Ulysses and the Sirens painting as being a dead song of death no one wants to hear to show that people can successfully deal with a threatening situation by focusing on their own work, while in his poem the “Siren Song”, Margaret Atwood uses the same scene to show that the power of making someone feel important can also cause them to be taken advantage of. In the poem “Siren Song”, Margaret Atwood uses detail, diction, and imagery to reveal how vulnerable the song makes people and how lonely the creatures singing the songs are. She shows how vulnerable the defenseless it makes people who hear the song in stanza two when she writes, “the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beaches skulls”. By using the word forces it is saying that it gives the people no choice but to leap overboard, even after seeing the beached skulls which is peoples dead skulls that have fell in their trap of the song before. Atwood also says in stanza 3, “the song nobody knows because anybody who has heard it is