Margaret Atwood Siren Song

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The poem Siren Song written by Margaret Atwood has a theme of sirens that are bored of singing them to death, and it works every time. The sirens song is a cry for help and the men are special because they are the only one that can help them. They end up killing the men once they are lured in. It has a tone of sadness and harshness. The song as a whole is a cry for help but has imagery of death.
This poem is written out a unique way because it is the so to speak “song” the sirens sing. It tells you there is a trio of sirens, so Atwood wrote the poem out by lines of three’s. One line for each siren. Atwood first started it by the sirens singing to you that the song is irresistible even though they see skulls out by the sirens. That means the

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