Summary Of Siren Song By Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song” dramatizes the conflict between feminism and deceit. A theme in this poem is lies and trickery. The speaker is deceiving the readers the entire time without them noticing. She constantly talks about the audience being the only people worthy of knowing the secret of the song to charm them. The readers are so enticed in knowing the secret, they fail to realize she is tricking them with the thing they are so curious to find out about. The speaker in this poem is one of the three sirens. She uses modern language to appeal to the readers of the poem, for example by using phrases such as “bird suit” or “squatting”. In lines 11-12 she says this to get comfortable with her readers and make them believe every word she