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Odysseus Song Of The Sirens

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Ulysses(also known as Odysseus) hears from Circe that they will be passing Sirens and the beasts called Scylla and Charybdis. She tells Odysseus to plug the ears of his sailors with beeswax, which he does. ”Plug your oarsmen’s ears with beeswax kneaded soft…”(pg. 916) Odysseus does this so none of the oarsmen or his other crew members are tempted to be tempted by the Sirens. Odysseus tells his men that he and he alone should listen to the song of the Sirens. ”Therefore you are to tie me up...if I shout and beg to be untied,take more turns to muffle me.”(pg. 918) This allows Odysseus to hear the Sirens song and hear of them telling him premonitions of a sort. Odysseus and his men pass the Sirens and all survive the experience. The painting
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Instead, the text talks about the actions of Odysseus who "sliced an ample wheel of beeswax [...] and I stopped the ears of my comrades one by one". Indeed, the only understanding of the sirens comes from their speech; this perspective originates from the Odyssey's point of view. Unlike "Siren Song," The Odyssey's focuses on the person who opposes the sirens, Odysseus, more than the sirens themselves. This leads to the Sirens lacking any special quality that would make them any different than any obstacle there is noting personal about them. This is in contrast "Siren Song," which focuses almost exclusively on the siren.

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