Homer portrays the siren’s song as mysterious and luring, while Atwood looks at them as irresistible and a nuisance. The difference is due to the fact that each passage is written in a different point of view, Homer’s being in the first person of a shipman traveling across the enchanted island and Atwood’s being the actual song. Homer says that the rowers in his story are physically and mentally strong, rowing hard and resisting the demand that their fellow mate be taken down from the mast. Atwood says that she doesn’t like it on the island, saying it is crying for help (while at the same time luring seamen to their death.) At

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