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Odysseus View Of The Sirens In Homer's Odyssey

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The sirens can be described as people who are cursed by something. While the crewmen are rowing the boat and can 't hear. Odysseus saying turn the boat around. So, Odysseus thinks the sirens are bad people,but I think they are just cursed. So do you think the sirens are telling the truth or is Odysseus.

Odysseus point of view he thinks the sirens are just people trying to kill men. In book 12, he tells his men to put beeswax in there ears so they can 't try to make then kill the whole crew. Odysseus was the only one who didn 't put beeswax in his ear because, he wanted to hear the sirens amazing song. So as they row closer he sirens appear and start to sing. Therefor, Odysseus is tied to a pole and is trying to get loose so he can get
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they both are trying to get back home but they come up to a shooting obstacle. in The Odyssey they made high pitched noises. So they tied Odysseus around the pole. So he wouldn't jump off the boat.” Keep well to seaward; play your oarsman's ears with beeswax kneaded soft; none of the rest should hear that song.

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There are sundry items emphasized in these three texts. Not only is the song and spell highlighted in “The Odyssey”, but also the challenge Odysseus and his crew had to face(Homer). “O Brother Where Art Thou?” discusses the women who sing the Siren song, the spell, and the disappearance of the men. The poem accentuates the Siren song (Atwood). Odysseus wanted to surrender to the captivating song of the Sirens, but the ropes hindered him.

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but she also says how the siren song works every time they sing it to anybody. She shows how the sirens are a cry for help but aren’t really, they are trying to trick the reader to come closer so they can demolish Odysseus. Artist John Williams Waterhouse and poet Margaret Atwood both showed how odysseus and his men were strong enough to go through challenges and not letting it stop them

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When Odysseus and his men passed the sirens in book 12, he told his men that they were safe and that nothing bad was going to happen. In the book, Circe only tells Odysseus about the sirens. Only when Odysseus tells his men about the sirens does he let the sirens take some of his best men. Not only did Odysseus not tell them about the sirens, he let the sirens take some of the men. This shows that Odysseus really doesn’t care about his men like a good leader should.

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In the “Odyssey”, Homer introduces the expedition Odysseus goes through to return to his native land. At one point he and his comrades must take the path that leads them to the island of the Sirens. The notorious sirens sing their sickeningly sweet tune to entice men to their eradication. Poet Atwood depicts the sirens in a calamitous facet. Both Homer and Atwood convey the idea that the Sirens pose a detrimental role through the application of imagery and diction.

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Given the leader he is, when Odysseus and his men encountered the sirens, his men were quick to follow his instructions with diligence. Homer writes, “Sirens weakening a haunting song over the sea we are to shun”(690-691). The sirens sing a songs to lure sailors to their death. Homer writes, “I alone should listen to their song”(693-694). Odysseus knowing what the sirens purpose and having prior knowledge of the things the sirens would say to him.

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They tied me up, then, plumb amidships, back to the mast, lashed to the mast, and took themselves again to rowing. ”(744-748). Here even though Odysseus was instructed to plug his men’s ears with beeswax and has them bind him to the mast of the ship from Circe, the devastatingly beautiful goddess-enchantress that turns Odysseus's men into pigs, seduces him it was still his decision to go along with it, which led to him and his men from falling to their doom. Odyssey even while trying to resist the Sirens beautiful singing got himself and his men past the Sirens successfully. In conclusion,

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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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Sanders Whiteside English I Mrs. Miller 11 February 2016 Courage Comes with Wisdom A man willing to fight for 20 years and return home to his family is a hard working man indeed. Characteristics can change the way one get is perceived as well can change the way someone acts. Homer's book The Odyssey takes place in roughly 760 BC in the Mediterranean in Greece.

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The Sirens fight against the man’s will to resist the Sirens magical song. They fought against Odysseus’s idea of using ear wax so his men were unable to hear the Sirens magical song. The Sirens were unable to overcome the challenge that Odysseus 's men provided, so Odysseus and his men managed to escape. The Sirens also do certain things to draw in men. The Sirens will sit

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Odysseus explains his encounter with the Sirens through the use of his own words and point of view. This first person point of view allows the audience to experience the expectation and preparation of a one on three confrontation with the three mythical characters. He portrays them as a sort of contradiction between the beautifully magical and all things destructive and horrid. By using diction, Odysseus enforces this and uses phrases such as “thrilling song” and “honeyed voices,” to describe the Sirens song, setting them up against the images of a rocky sea with “whitecaps.” Likewise, there is evidence of the conflicting nature of the Sirens with the rhythm of the phrase “Sirens sensed at once a ship” and the dissonance of the phrase “Come

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