Atwood was born on November 18, 1939. She spent a lot of her childhood in the woods. She didn't start going to school until she was 12. She read a lot of books. She graduated high school in 1957. She began writing when she was 6.
She was a member of the Girl scouts.
She realized she wanted to write proffesionaly when she was 16. She got a bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in 1961.
She got a master's degree at Harvard in 1962.
In the 1960s, she wrote Double Persephone, The Circle Game, Kaleidoscopes Baroque: a poem, Talismans for Children, Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein, The Animals in That Country, and The Edible Woman
In the 1970s, she wrote The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Procedures for Underground, Power Politics, You Are Happy, Selected Poems 1965–1975, Two-Headed Poems, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature and Dancing Girls.
In the 1980s, she wrote Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale, and Cat's Eye.
In the 1990s, she wrote The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and Snake Woman.
In the 21st century, she wrote The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam, The Penelopiad, Hag-Seed, The Testaments, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, Pauline, Angel Catbird, Scribbler Moon and Dearly.
The poem is about a siren who doesn't like being a siren
It is a free verse poem with nine three-lined stanzas
It uses assonance, consonance, enjambment, imagery, metaphors, allusion, and rhetorical questions
In stanzas 1 & 2, the siren song is described and it is revealed that it is the song and not the voice that lures the sailors.
In stanzas 3-6, it is revealed that the narrator is a siren who doesn't like being a siren.
In stanzas 7 & 8, the siren cries and begs for help.
In stanza 9, a ship crashes into the island.