Margaret Atwood lures her audience in the poem "Siren Song" by utilizing many literary devices and techniques, which ultimately trick the reader into thinking that she will reveal something beneficial and the "song that is irresistible" (2-3). ... The genre of the poem is narrative. ... This allows the poem to flow right through. ... The poem is not actually going to be beneficial because the song is the poem. ... At this point in the poem the author has the reader lured into the poem and wants to tease the reader by using "fatal." ...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It is also claimed that he wrote the poem Batrachomyomachia (the battle of the frogs and mice). ... His jeers at the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides provide one of the earliest examples of literary criticism. ... By this device he called in the gods to settle problems. ...

• Word Count: 2001
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School