Song Of The Sirens Essay

Strange enchantment
In Blanchot’s account of the story of the song of sirens, the song that sang by the sirens was strangely alluring. What was the nature of the sirens’ song? Why was it so powerful? The answer people have always given is that it was an inhuman song, but one that remained in the fringes of nature, foreign in every possible way to man, awakening in him that extreme delight in falling which he cannot satisfy in the normal condition of his life. However, there is something even stranger in this enchantment, the Sirens, who were only animals, very beautiful because of the reflection of feminine beauty, could sing as men sing, they made the song so strange that they give birth in anyone who heard it to a suspicious on inhumanity in every human song. The infinite power of apportioning is invoked. The sirens make us appear to be a little more animal as themselves appear to be a little more human. As Blanchot Wrote: …show more content…
In Blanchot’s story, the sirens are the unattainable point of desire. The song sang by them was a form of navigation, it was a distance, and what it revealed was the possibility of traveling that distance, of making the song into a movement toward the song and of making this movement into the expression of the greatest