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 captivated individuals since the time Homer sung the lines of his epic, motivating specialists of numerous kinds from oil artistic creations to films. In her sonnet Alarm Song, Margaret Atwood re-imagines the Sirens to draw an examination between the fantasies and current life. Atwood depicts men as casualties 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 artists - stands out promptly with her baiting expressions and jargon: This is the one tune everybody/might want to learn: the melody/that is irresistible... (1-3). Indeed, even with alarm shouting, Notice! Peril! the uproarious ringing serves just to get more notification. Perusers react with enthusiasm, needing to hear this melody and asking why it is powerful (3). Atwood utilizes colons in this first verse as her device for maneuvering perusers into her story. Her colons indicate the disclosure of this incredible mystery; perusers must peruse on to find it. Instead of halting suddenly, 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 alluring voice through her portrayal of the cryptic intensity of the Siren melody. 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 unfailingly (27). In Alarm Song, Atwood plays off the legendary thought that Sirens lure their casualties so as to exhibit the equivalent manipulative inclinations in ladies and writers ladies lure men; artists lure their perusers. She demonstrates her hypothesis by practicing it and catching her perusers in her own sonnet. Her deliberately made language frames a snare for her perusers, exhibiting verse's intensely tempting nature. Perusers become spellbound in her story, and, in the wake of confronting demise as the Siren's (Atwood's) casualties, her perusers concur this is the tune/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.