Title: Analysis of Margaret Atwoods Category:Literature / English Details: Words: 859 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Analysis of Margaret Atwoods
From its undistinguished title and neat, fluid three-line stanzas Margaret Atwood's "Siren Song" permits the reader to clearly and accurately absorb her theme. Yet, her allusion to Homer's great work, the "Odyssey", requires the reader to know the importance of the charming song of the fabled Sirens. First referenced in Greek mythology, the Sirens were sea nymphs blessed with an inviting song of intoxicating voice that lured sailors to their deaths. Atwood uses this mythical image to provide the foundation upon which she builds the …showed first 85 words of 859 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 859 total…is located on a craggy mass in some unknown water. It is the plight of man and how he weighs and decides the options laid out before him in life. Further, it is a statement of the redundancy man puts himself through: hundreds of junkies dead, yet another crackhead puts a rock in a pipe; millions of teen mothers, yet a tenth-grader forgoes a condom; a borderline "C" in poetry, yet a suffering student still decides to party. Is not siren a synonym for alarm?
