The next stanza continues unfolding more of the Siren’s motives with individuals she encounters. The poem continues is a continuum of the allusion to Homer’s The Odyssey, as Atwood writes, “...forces men/to leap overboard in squadrons/even though they see the beached skulls”(4-6). The Siren describe the power her song has on men that hear it, because they “leap” despite seeing the “beached skulls”. This revelation describes that the song works even if men foreshadow their own deaths when seeing the death of others on the beach. Through imagery, the speaker paints a vivid picture of her ambiance with the phrases “leap overboard in squadrons”, readers can imagine groups of men coming off the boat to get closer to the Siren. Also “beached skills”
