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'The Sirens': An Explanation Of The Siren
In the next stanza, the Siren continues to manipulate her audience by expressing her misfortunes. Readers learn more about the Sirens state when she says, “with these two feathery maniacs,/I don't enjoy singing/this trio, fatal and valuable.”(16-18).Readers discover that the Siren is in company of two others, that she refers to as “feathery maniacs”. By this readers suppose that the speaker does not have a positive relationship with the two others. The Siren also reveals that she dislikes singing because while the song is powerful it is ultimately “fatal” to those who hear it. As a results, readers feel sympathy towards the Siren because she portrays herself like a victim. She is constrained to be in the island, singing a fatal song and her
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