There is no home-coming for the man who draws near them unawares...for with their high clear song the Sirens bewitch him, as they sit there in a meadow piled high with the mouldering skeletons of men, whose withered skin still hangs upon their bones" (Odyssey, Book 12, ll. 39ff trans. Rieu/Jones) This is a warning to the great adventurer Odysseus from the mythological epic poem by Homer called the "Odyssey." ... Each stanza of the poem contains a certain theme that will have the power to persuade in a different way, thus the reader's attention is grabbed with the various emotions disp...

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