The speaker of Margaret Atwood’s Siren Song is a Siren. From
the siren’s perspective, she tells her story of how bored she is sitting all picturesque
and mythical and how the song is a cry for help. Everyone who has heard her
song is dead since it lures men to leap overboard and die even though they know
what fate they will have. Her voice is very casual and informal and gives a
modern take to the stories of Sirens from the eight century BC.
