An Analysis Of Mark Twain's Sirens

Both poems of "Sirens" have many things in common and some things ordinary from what's in the poem. In the first version of the poem sirens, it seems that it goes into more details about the actual poem. In the second version of the poem, it is more simple and easier to understand and comprehend better. Both versions of the poem have different tone, point of view, and something they have in common is having poetic devices such as, diction, imagery, etc.

On the first version of the poem, the tone is set to be, more unhinged, and more satire, It declares in the poem, "So they pent their ravishing voices out across the air and the heart inside me throbbed to listen longer." This represents the tone throughout the poem because it