Lust In Margaret Atwood's 'Siren Song'

Love is the emotion of unstable properties. It can be mended by the holder to produce the sweetest of nectar but if done incorrectly can leave the most bitter aftertaste of regret. This line is formed between love and lust, which a male seemingly cannot distinguish from another. We are like minnows wondering in the depths of the unknown seeking for the light of an angel but we fall for ignorance being consumed by the angler fish, our assumptions. Scarred by these events, we still do not learn. “Siren Song” portrays a story about a siren bored of her own tricks and men all together. “Delilah” is about a heartbroken man regretting his decision of murder due to his hard-headedness. In the poem “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood and the song “Delilah” by Tom Jones both use Plot, Point of

Both pieces focus mainly on the progression of both stories underlying the evolution of the narrator as the reader reads more carefully it starts to depict how the inciting incident for both stories can be connected to love and its properties to entice dangerous acts. In “Siren Song” the reader is mislead to think the narrator was at first a man part of a platoon when it was the siren spelling out death into the reader’s ears: “... I will tell the secret to you, / to you, only to you. / Come closer. ” This represents Atwood’s Raising Action when the reader slowly realizes the true intents of the Siren. “Delilah” connected to this quite fashionably but not in the narrator change like “Siren Song” did but more on motive and the history of the character Tom Jones acts as in the song. At first glance, it portrays (and can still be) a man witnessing his