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Have you had enough now? This game has worn rather thin - you know I will win,
your heart will win. You reach for me but hesitate before you make contact. This will go on
your sin pile at the heavenly gates. It could send you t o . the bad place. But you touch me
regardless - one night won't make too much difference - and you fall to the ground with
me. Your muscles no longer have the strength to hold you up. Your body can no longer
resist the pull of mine.
And finally, you realise that everything I told you is true.
"There'll be Hell to pay someday."

R a tio n ale

I have decided to present the first section of my assignment as the visual element of
this assignment. I think the poem, with rhythm and a beat, sums up the haunting, melodic
qualities of the song of a siren.
I spent a few weeks having decided that this was the section I would present thinking
how I could show it. Then it all clicked one night, and I knew that I was going to use a

message in a bottle. A message in a bottle has long been the picturesque and iconic method
of sending a message over seas, often asking for help. I thought this ways most appropriate
as the siren is said to sing her song over a thousand seas, and to be looking for this one
person.
The contemporary relevance of this piece is to show that a man will always follow his
heart rather than his head. Emotions are raw, powerful things and people often listen to
their raging feelings rather than the rules and morals that they have been taught. It is
natural and quite common for people to follow their hearts and not what they have learnt is
right. The song of the siren was perfect for me to show the amount of power one person
can have over another. It also shows that both individuals know that he is falling from grace

but that neither is exactly rushing to stop it.
The last line is the only stated speech in the story which I found to be quite hard to
do. In my first draft, the whole story was littered with snatches of dialogue, and some
rewrites later I came to realise that the story would be more mythical and real if I had mo
speech other than the final words. Again, it symbolises her quiet power in the fact that she
does not speak aloud throughout, and that he only speaks to inform readers that he has
fallen into the arms of the siren and to let us know that he knows there will be
consequences to his actions.
I chose this bottle specifically because it is an alco-pop bottle and has writing in the

glass. The type of bottle indicates that it is happening in these times and, hopefully, will at
least hint at the fact that I have set this is a bar. I wanted to show that my piece was