€ MEC English 1AM (Prescriptive) / 2. Narrative
Who are the Sirens?
Passage from The Odyssey
Dear friends
more than one man, or two, should know those things
Circe foresaw for us and shared with me,
so let me tell her forecast, then we die
with our eyes open if we are going to die
or know what death we battle of we can Sirens
weaving a haunting song over the sea
we are to shun, she said, and their green shore all sweet with
clover, yet she urged that I
alone should listen to their song Therefore
you are to tio me up, tight as a splint,
erect along the mast, lashed to the mast,
and if I shout and beg to be unbied,
take more turns of the rope to muffle me
A. minor characters
B. Plat characters
C. protagonists
D. antagonist