Siren Song!
Greek mythology has always interested me and this poem is definately an interesting read. The song is about the mythical sirens who lure men to their deaths by tricking them into crashing their ships against the rocks of their island. This paticular poem is told from one of the Siren's points of view and involves her tricking the audience for it into crashing by pretending the song is a cry for help and since its a well known fact (read: cliche) that men can't resist a beautiful woman, the audience will have fallen into her trap. Just as she planned.
Ulysses
This story is about the famed Ulysess (star and hero of the famous epic The Odyssey). In this story he is old and recounts the many adventures of his life. In order to return home to his loyal wife and son he went through many hardships that would easily have made a lesser man lose his mind. However his son is very different from him and he finds that as he grows closer to death he wants to go one last adventure. He wants to be famed for one more thing. Simply put he can't bear the thought of sitting at home peacefully and would prefer to go on another life or death adventure. Really this poem is rather sad in that, Ulysses worked incredibly hard to return home to his family and yet when he gets there, he wants to go back on another adventure.
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I liked your interpretation of "Ulysses."I didn't notice that he had just gotten back from an adventure and is now going to go on another one. That does bring an aspect of sadness into the poem.
This is exactly the way that I viewed Siren Song also. It is funny that at first you don't realize it is a trap, just the way that sirens want you to think.
I like your interpretation of the Siren Song. I had never thought that the narrator would even be tricking the audience. That adds to the level of what the sirens are capable of and what is still unknown about them.
I agree with your interpretation of Siren Song. Even though the sirens wanted to leave the island, they knew they could not, so they continued to lure men to the island to their death.
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