Tone Of The Sirens

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The sirens can be described as caniving ,predatorial,and torturous.While the crewmen are tiresome,Odyseus is being tortured.The painting communicates the idea that odyseus and his men are being tortured by the sirens,while the book communicates the idea that he is joyous.
Contrasting all three,the poem,the book,and the picture,the tone of the poem stays the same,morbid and depressing.This is because in book 12 the men are told to put beeswax within their ears and to tie odyseus to the sail,so that he would be able to listen to their song and not steer the ship into the rocks.If odyseus hadn't taken these precautions he would have most certainly steered all of the men to their watery death.In the poem it comes from the point of view of the sirens,yet

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