Blog 3: TEWWG chart

Blog 2: Close Reading of Poetry

 Siren Song by Margaret Artwood

This is the one song everyone

would like to learn: the song

that is irresistible:            Diction is pulling the reader in (“irresistible”)

the song that forces men                Imagery enforces the scene in which the author is portraying

to leap overboard in squadrons           Definition: warships used during war

even though they see beached skulls

the song nobody knows

because anyone who had heard it

is dead, and the others can’t remember.

    Shift in tone- from mysterious and intriguing to boredom

Shall I tell you the secret

and if I do, will you get me

out of this bird suit?            Sympathizing with the enemy    , use of rhetorical question

I don’t enjoy it here

squatting on this island

looking picturesque and mythical       Refers to the mythical tale, The Odyssey

with these two feathery maniacs,    Makes narrator sound pitiable and misunderstood

I don’t enjoy singing

this trio, fatal and valuable,

I will tell the secret to you,

to you, only to you.             Trying to gain trust of the audience, to make them feel special

Come closer. The song

is a cry for help: Help me!                  Punctuation adds to the tone shift of desperation

Only you, only you can,

you are unique

at last. Alas                                 Tone shift--content, satisfactory

it is a boring song

but it works every time.                Conniving, dark humor; listener ends up the same way as the rest do