Sirens to Warn Men

"Donne's persona pictures women as adversaries to be treated with caution.  Donne's use of the mermaid image to suggest the danger women pose to men most probably alludes to The Odyssey, in which only the wily Odysseus survived hearing the sirens' song" (Blythe and Sweet).

I remember bringing up the issues of the mermaids in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and comparing them to the sirens and how, according to lore and legend, they would lure sailors to their deaths by their songs.  While I didn't make the entire connection that Eliot may have been commenting on the entire gender of women and them being dangerous creatures.  While I'm a little offended as a woman in general, I kind of like the comparison.  Men probably should be wary of women because we are pretty slick and we're (well, most of us) are pretty intelligent. :)