Next Poem 18 / 30 Previous Poem Siren Song Rating: ★4.0 Autoplay This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see beached skulls the song nobody knows because anyone...
"Siren Song" is a poem that takes a different look at the ancient Greek myth of thesirens,the half-bird, half-woman creatures who lured passing sailors to their deaths with an irresistible song. Margaret Atwood offers an unusual insight into the character of one of these sirens, by giving ...
Siren Songby Hugo Williams I phone from time to time, to see if she's changed the music on her answerphone. 'Tell me in two words', goes the recording, 'what you were going to tell in a thousand'. I peer into that thought, like peering out to sea at night, hearing the sound o...