Siren Song
This poem is about men's uncontrollable attraction to the sirens. The sirens represent women in the peom and the song they sing represents their power through beauty. The seventh and eighth stanzas is deceiving to men because the siren is proclaiming that the song is personal for the individual that hears it. In reality, the song is a trap for all men who is lured in by the distress calls of the siren. The author perceives men a brutes with uncontrollable urges that force them to fall for the sirens even though they know of the danger.
Ulysses
This poem perfectly describes man's urge to not be bored. The saying "live life to the fullest" is what this poem is all about. The fact that Ulysses is back with his wife and son were great, but he became restless. He is now bored of the ordinary life and has the never ending urge to take on new experiences. All that he has is not satisfying him now. This need for more goes beyond the greed for power and money into the realm of eternal glory.
Leda and the Swan
This poem seems to be the story of Zeus' kidnpping of the young beautiful woman named Leda. This is a well known legend in greek mythology. The peom desribes her as being terrified as she is taken by Zeus who has taken the form of a swan. The peom also describes the swan (Zeus) as strong, bold, and glorious. It is strange that the author would describe him this way while he is apparently raping the girl he just snatched.
All of these poems are similar in the fact that they all describe mythological creatures and events. None of the myths have a certain time frame in which they took place nor are they based on actual human beings that can be proven to have existed. Personally, I liked each of the poems because I am fascinated with greek mythology.
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I never thought about why Zeus was named a swan because swans are normally beautiful ducks and innocent. And for him to be raping a girl doesn't make him very innocent.
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