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![]() In Louise Glück’s poem, Siren, the speaker is in the role of a mistress. The tone of the poem could be interpreted as resentful. The woman in the poem has dropped her life to be with a married man, who is refusing to leave his wife for her. I didn’t want to go to Chicago with you. I wanted to marry you, I wanted Your wife to suffer. That stanza shows how she has given up so much for her to be with this man. In my own interpretation, I said that it sounded like the man has made a previous promise to her that he would divorce his wife to be with her. One major stigma about this poem is that most films and other writings depict the “other woman” as a young, devilish, sex-driven woman, but the speaker in this poem is hopelessly in love with this man. The title of this poem is a give-away to the negative stigma that is talked about in this poem. When she says, I was a good waitress. I could carry eight drinks. It shows that she had a life before she met this man, and she dropped everything to be with him, but he isn’t going to leave his wife anytime soon to be with her. At the end of the poem, she reminisces on everything she has missed out on because she has been waiting on this man. In the dream, she’s weeping, the bus she’s on Is moving away. With one hand She’s waving; the other strokes An egg carton full of babies. From my own interpretation, I believe that the woman on the bus is the speaker. While it is an odd visual, she is hurt because she put her entire life on pause for a man who is still in love with his wife. She could have found another man to love her and to take care of her, with whom she could have had kids with, but she is disappointed with herself because she was blinded by love.
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Darlene w
10/13/2019 04:47:00 pm
I like your reading, I like the stanza your decided to talk about. I took that stanza as her saying shes a good woman and reinforcing that with her multitasking skills.
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ariel parker
10/13/2019 07:45:12 pm
i really liked that you broke the poem down by each stanza, and gave it your own interpretation of what the author might have experienced and what she was thinking about. the poem certainly could be resentful, and perhaps that she felt regret for how she handled the situation.
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