Siren Song

In â€Å"Homer’s Odyssey† and â€Å"Siren Song† both show the shortcomings of people. Additionally it uncovers people discover something so luring that they are unequipped for withstanding it. In â€Å"Homer’s Odyssey† Homer makes a fantasy that the alarms are hazardous animals, dissimilar to Atwood’s sonnet, â€Å"Siren Song. † Atwood’s sonnet anyway shows an edginess originating from the alarms. In â€Å"Homer’s Odyssey† the sonnet is told from Odysseus perspective. He depicts the Sirens as baffling and luring.Circes prompts Odysseus that the Sirens â€Å"spellbind any man alive, whoever comes their direction. † Gaining this information, Odysseus made his mariners plug their ears with beeswax so they would abstain from hearing the exciting tunes of the Sirens. Odysseus was resolved to hear the wonderful melodies of the Sirens, despite the fact that he knew about the results. This uncovers keeps an eye on c hildishness by having Odysseus take the necessary steps to hear the tune. Odysseus arranges his men to secure him on the pole to guarantee his survival.Odysseus hears the Siren's tune and begins to respond to it, his men â€Å"flung themselves to the oars† and â€Å"sprung up on the double to tie him quicker with ropes. † This shows how prompting the alarms were to men. In â€Å"Homer’s Odyssey† a man’s insightful is appeared, and depicts how enticement will consistently be a piece of life. Not at all like â€Å"Homer’s Odyssey†, Atwood’s sonnet â€Å"Siren Song† is told from the Sirens perspective. The alarms are depicted as overpowering animals that cause men to totally lose all self control.One of the Sirens states â€Å"I don’t appreciate it here,† in â€Å"Homer’s Odyssey† all the alarms appear to be attached to singing their excellent tunes. In Atwood’s sonnet a Siren is asking fo r help; â€Å"Help me, no one but you can. † Unfortunately nobody can help in light of the fact that once the music of the Sirens contacts the ear; they surrender to the intensity of the Sirens. The Sirens have a specific edginess to be liberated from their undesirable life on the island. â€Å"Will you get me out of this winged creature suit? † shows that the Sirens in Atwood’s sonnet have characters, inverse of â€Å"Homer’s Odyssey†.There is no data in The Odyssey that induces that the alarms have a personality. In the two sonnets the Sirens voices demonstrate a powerful draw to men. The reasons that the Sirens sings contrast from every sonnet. In† Homer’s Odyssey,† Odysseus feels like they are focusing on him, anyway in Atwood’s sonnet the Sirens are basically singing for themselves. The Sirens appear to be sympatric to the men who bounce over the edge, yet incapable to prevent themselves from calling the men to their island.The sonnets â€Å"Homer’s Odyssey† and â€Å"Siren Song† have numerous similitudes in how the Sirens are depicted and yet they vary in a wide range of parts of the sonnets. The â€Å"Sirens Song† Sirens utilize the men’s own characteristic interest to carry the men to them. The â€Å"Odyssey† Sirens use charm and the guarantee of energy to get the men to come. In any case, the Sirens uncover how precarious and shrewd they are with their enchanted melodies. By and by, the Sirens could simply be attempting to torment men for their own diversion or they could be attempting to connect for help.