The Manipulative Sirens and Their Victims in Margaret Atwoods Siren So

The Manipulative Sirens and Their Victims in Margaret Atwood's Siren Song In Homer's Odyssey, the Sirens are legendary animals whose captivating voices draw mariners to their demises. These ladies have intrigued individuals since the time Homer sung the lines of his epic, rousing craftsmen of numerous kinds from oil works of art to films. In her sonnet Alarm Song, Margaret Atwood re-imagines the Sirens to draw an examination between the legends and present day life. Atwood depicts men as survivors of Alarms (ladies) by making her perusers the people in question. Atwood starts her sonnet with the speaker strangely presenting a mystery. Addressing her crowd, the Siren- - whose job is played, in actuality, by ladies and resembled by writers - stands out promptly with her drawing expressions and jargon: This is the one tune everybody/might want to learn: the tune/that is irresistible... (1-3). Indeed, even with alarm shouting, Notice! Risk! the noisy ringing serves just to get more notification. Perusers react with enthusiasm, needing to hear this melody and asking why it is overwhelming (3). Atwood utilizes colons in this first refrain as her instrument for maneuvering perusers into her story. Her colons allude to the disclosure of this extraordinary mystery; perusers must peruse on to find it. As opposed to halting unexpectedly, Atwood conveys her idea to the subsequent refrain by starting it with a lower case letter. Anyway the speaker doesn't proceed with that idea by confessing to the mystery immediately as the peruser would anticipate. Rather Atwood gives the speaker an enchanting voice through her portrayal of the perplexing intensity of the Siren tune. The speaker prods perusers with proof of its quality that powers men/to jump over the edge (4-5), plunging to their demises. ... ...t works inevitably (27). In Alarm Song, Atwood plays off the legendary thought that Sirens tempt their casualties so as to exhibit the equivalent manipulative inclinations in ladies and artists ladies allure men; writers lure their perusers. She demonstrates her hypothesis by practicing it and catching her perusers in her own sonnet. Her painstakingly created language shapes a snare for her perusers, exhibiting verse's intensely enchanting nature. Perusers become enchanted in her story, and, in the wake of confronting passing as the Siren's (Atwood's) casualties, her perusers concur this is the melody/that is irresistible... (2-3) and it works without fail (27). Works Cited Hamilton, Edith. Folklore: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. New York: Mentor, 1990. VanSpanckeren, Kathryn and Jan Garden Castro. Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988.