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 …

…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?