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... sirens in Greek mythology . And Poe's story is the describing of a siren as if she were a reality ; that is , it is an exercise in describ- ing the indescribable . 3 In the Odyssey Homer has two sirens , whose shapes and nature he does ...
... sirens in Greek mythology . And Poe's story is the describing of a siren as if she were a reality ; that is , it is an exercise in describ- ing the indescribable . 3 In the Odyssey Homer has two sirens , whose shapes and nature he does ...
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... sirens as a tempter of man is not brought into Poe's story . Homer's sirens tempted Ulysses with their knowledge , not with their bodies , and for Poe a siren meant all knowledge . Others agree . Lawrence Binyon in part shares this idea ...
... sirens as a tempter of man is not brought into Poe's story . Homer's sirens tempted Ulysses with their knowledge , not with their bodies , and for Poe a siren meant all knowledge . Others agree . Lawrence Binyon in part shares this idea ...
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... sirens committed suicide and were three times resurrected : once , after losing a contest with the Muses ; again , when Orpheus outsang them ; and , then , when Ulysses passed them by.10 And in 1802 the German Clemens Brentano said that ...
... sirens committed suicide and were three times resurrected : once , after losing a contest with the Muses ; again , when Orpheus outsang them ; and , then , when Ulysses passed them by.10 And in 1802 the German Clemens Brentano said that ...
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