Senior Research Project on Margaret Atwood's "Siren Song"
It is strange how life can be given and taken away all in an instant, but literature will never die, it is always being reproduced and created by fresh authors trying to become the next big thing. Being an author of poetry in the late twentieth-century Margaret Atwood's works displayed strong feminist view points. Atwood's "Siren Song" shows the feelings of women in the time period. Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa, Canada on November 18, 1939. As stated in Ann D. Garbett's biography on Margaret she was, "A Canadian writer most known for her feminist fiction centering on mythic themes, as well as her poetry and literary criticism."(81) Margaret Atwood is more commonly known for her novels; however, she was a poet first. Atwood didn't attend a complete year of scho
" (Atwood 1000) the Siren is speaking to the sailors that can't help but listen and want to hear the song from a closer spot. The audience of the poem can be seen differently in the eyes of the reader. Atwood felt that female novelist of the nineteenth century sacrificed having marriages and families and because of that they lived short and unhappy lives (Margaret Atwood 83). Atwood wrote the poem "Siren Song" ________. She got her start writing poetry, short stories and cartoons for her high school newspaper. ol until 8th grade, despite the fact she always managed to get good grades (Margaret Atwood 999). Alas it is a boring song but it works every time. Pratt medal for her first published book of poems, Double Persephone.
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