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
gives a clear claration on how vivid and feeling desperate and in this sentence on the second version of the poem, the tone is more, desperate this sentence on the second version of the poem, the tone is more desperate and mournful. It's main point of the poem is in anguish ask for help. It states, in the second version, "I will tell the secret to you, to you, only to you, come closer. This song is a cry for help. Help me! only you, only you can, you are unique at last!" This quote makes the poem set it's tone as desperate.
Another thing they have in common would be, both poems are imagery. In version one of the poem, it states, "Now with a sharp sword i sliced an ample wheel of beeswax down into pieces, needed them in my two strong hands and the wax soon grew of it" This quote gives the readers mind an image of what it is talking about. In the second version of the poem, it states, "...the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skull" This is also imagery because it gives the readers a clear image in their head.
All these strategies both poems had none of them had the exact same tone, nor the exact same imagery. One huge thing they both poems have in common is the point of view of both poems and how it is still the same person saying and referring to both poems have an unexceptional and dwelling point of view.. Both portrays if the Sirens poems, have things in common and things not in common.
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
gives a clear claration on how vivid and feeling desperate and in this sentence on the second version of the poem, the tone is more, desperate this sentence on the second version of the poem, the tone is more desperate and mournful. It's main point of the poem is in anguish ask for help. It states, in the second version, "I will tell the secret to you, to you, only to you, come closer. This song is a cry for help. Help me! only you, only you can, you are unique at last!" This quote makes the poem set it's tone as desperate.
Another thing they have in common would be, both poems are imagery. In version one of the poem, it states, "Now with a sharp sword i sliced an ample wheel of beeswax down into pieces, needed them in my two strong hands and the wax soon grew of it" This quote gives the readers mind an image of what it is talking about. In the second version of the poem, it states, "...the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skull" This is also imagery because it gives the readers a clear image in their head.
All these strategies both poems had none of them had the exact same tone, nor the exact same imagery. One huge thing they both poems have in common is the point of view of both poems and how it is still the same person saying and referring to both poems have an unexceptional and dwelling point of view.. Both portrays if the Sirens poems, have things in common and things not in common.