Thursday, February 26, 2009

plog 4

in margaret atwood's siren song, she uses vivd imagery and a tone and mood of deceit and trickery to capture the leader in more ways than one. she captures the speaker with her diction and grabs them with her song. there is alos a theme of women overpowering men in the way they can capture then.
the tone and mood of deceit and trickery comes from the change i see in the poem after the first three stanzas. she seems to try and trap the reader as if the poem were her song. there is a main thme of helplessness in the siroens song and it goes along with how men treat women and women's power over men. the siren or women in general can sing this song and make men kill themselves. it shows how women control the thought and actions of men.
through her diction she uses hooking words to capture the reader like "help me!" and "you are unique" and how she says you a lot and talks to the reader/sailor to pull them in with her "song."

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