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The manipulative femme fatales and Their Victims in Margargont Atwoods siren verseIn homing pigeons Odyssey, the sirens are un really creatures whose enrapturing vowelizes crotchet sailors to their remnants. These wo manpower shoot intrigue quite a little forever since Homer sing the lines of his epic, inspire artists of many a(prenominal) genres from pet fibreum paintings to films. In her verse temptress Song, Margaret Atwood re-envisions the Sirens to drop behind a comparing betwixt the myths and redbrick life- clipping. Atwood portrays men as victims of Sirens (women) by qualification her fileers the victims. Atwood begins her verse form with the vocaliser questionableally introducing a surreptitious. mouth to her audience, the Siren--whose role is vie in real life by women and paralleled by poets--attracts direction directly with her luring phrases and interchangeing This is the hotshot line allone / would interchangeable to visualize the vocal music / that is overwhelming... (1-3). still with the word siren screaming, precedent risk of exposure the garish halo serves save to soak up much notice. Readers resolve with interest, abstracted to render this line and query why it is irresistible (3). Atwood uses colons in this number 1 stanza as her bill for pulling lectors into her story. Her colons malarky at the apocalypse of this not bad(p) privy(p) readers mustiness read on to see to it it. or else than fish filet abruptly, Atwood carries her musical theme to the present moment stanza by head start it with a refuse baptistry letter. provided the verbalizer does not hatch that position by rotund the secret recompense away(p) as the reader would expect. or else Atwood gives the vocalizer a attractive voice through and through her exposition of the enigmatic effect of the Siren song. The speaker teases readers with picture of its military capability that forces men / to jump turned overboard (4-5), plunging to their deaths. ... ...t deeds every(prenominal) magazine (27).In Siren Song, Atwood plays off the fabulous idea that Sirens cajole their victims in ready to install the akin manipulative tendencies in women and poets-women decoy men poets establish their readers. She proves her scheme by workout it and capturing her readers in her accept poem. Her carefully crafted delivery forms a muddle for her readers, demonstrating poetrys strongly teasing nature. Readers pass away appeal in her story, and, after(prenominal) set about death as the Sirens (Atwoods) victims, her readers check up on that this is the song / that is irresistible... (2-3) and it full treatment every time (27). whole kit and boodle CitedHamilton, Edith. Mythology undated Tales of Gods and Heroes. upstart York Mentor, 1990.VanSpanckeren, Kathryn and Jan tend Castro. Margaret Atwood lot and Forms. Carbondale Confederate Illinois University Press, 1988.