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Margaret AtwoodSiren Song
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Introduction
“Siren Song”
- Originally Published: 1974
- Form/Meter: Free verse in 9 tercets
- Literary Devices: Humor; irony; allusion; imagery
- Central Concern: With irony, the speaker of the poem (a Siren) considers the power of the siren song.
Margaret Atwood, Poet
- Bio: Born in 1939; a native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; graduate of Victoria College and Harvard University; writes poetry, novels, short fiction, essays, criticism, and nonfiction books; recipient of the Franz Kafka International Literary Award, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Booker Prize, among other awards
- Other Works: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985); The Blind Assassin (2002); Oryx and Crake (2008); “Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet” (2009)
THEMES
- The Influence of Ego on the Perception of Helplessness
- Woman as Weapon
- Art and the Island
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