In the book “The Penguin book of Mermaids” the poem and the chapter “Odysseus and the Sirens” and what really stood out to me is that in the passage of “Hear and obey; if freedom I demand,”(10). In this part of the poem it means that there is a part of society that often tells people what to do and controls behind closed doors. It represents how does a siren would play a sound that would be dangerous to play out to the world. What connects this to our world is the quote “Oh stay, O pride of Greece! Ulysses, stay!” (10). It would mean having pride in ourselves no matter what people tell us who we really are. Pride has gotten pretty far in a sense of identity and it has said points that proves why persistence has gone through further and further along on to going out into the sea. This relates to our world because it has to do something with how people take there pride too far like for example when people express themselves and people judge the for something that seems wrong with them but it can turn into isolation and revenge. The relevancy everywhere I go and it is to show the world isn’t really a safe place to express our true selves especially online.