The Swiftie and The Scholar

We are tackling one of the most underrated tracks from Taylor Swift’s folklore album, epiphany. The poem compares past war tragedies to 2020’s pandemic, and Uncle Jerry uses the poem to teach us about Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory. 

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Works Cited:
Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner – Randall Jarrell
The Angels at Hamburg – Randall Jarrell
Vignette poems
Rhapsody on a Windy Night – T. S. Eliot
Trochees
Iambs
The Song of Hiawatha – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ernest Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory
*Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway 
Caesura
Parallelism
Synecdoche
*The Things They Carried: The Classic Work of American Literature on War, Memory, and Storytelling –Tim O'Brien 
*Man's Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl 
Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent – John Milton
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We are back in our Tortured Poets Era with Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus. This song was much-requested and was voted on by our Patreon subscribers. Angela and Uncle Jerry talk through the poem and Uncle Jerry concedes that sometimes we try to find too much meaning in certain images.

Works Cited:
Sadie and Maud – Gwendolyn Brooks
maggie and milly and molly and may – e.e. cummings
[in Just-] – e.e. cummings
Brylcreem commercial
Synecdoche
Sonnet 12 – William Shakespeare
Sonnet 60 – William Shakespeare
Sonnet 73 – William Shakespeare
My Boyfriend’s Back – The Angels
Cold Cold Heart – Hank Williams
Ellipse in Linguistics
To His Coy Mistress – Andrew Marvell
Tricolon
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We’re back in our Speak Now era with Dear John. Angela explains the lore behind this quintessential track 5 from Taylor Swift, and Uncle Jerry talks himself into being a fan of this poem. 

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Works Cited:
Dear John Letter
Agnes von Kurowsky
*A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway 
A Dear John Letter – Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
Dear John Letter – Whitney Houston
Epistolary frame
Poetic Inversion
Dramatic Irony
Metapoetry
Metonymy 
The Scholar-Gipsy – Matthew Arnold
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This week is the one year podcast anniversary, and Angela saved this song especially for this episode. But before we tackle seven from folklore, Angela and Uncle Jerry reflect on the past year and Angela surprises him with a little quiz to see just how much he’s learned about Taylor Swift and swiftie culture.

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Works Cited:
7 as the number of completion
Apostrophe
Imperatives
Pastoral PoetryDramatic Irony
Assonance
To His Coy Mistress – Andrew Marvell
American Primitive – Mary Oliver*
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We’re taking it back to 1989 with the only Taylor Swift song Uncle Jerry knew before we started this project. Angela expected this to be a quick, simple episode, but Uncle Jerry found a lot of deeper meaning in the glitter gel pen poem.

Works Cited:
Catalog Poem
Dr. J. Don Vann
A Handbook to Literature – William Harmon & Hugh Holman – Aff Link
Goblin Market – Christina Rossetti
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women – Alice Duer Miller
Anaphora
Metonymy
Onomatopoeia
Epizeuxis
Polyptoton
Tautological
The Waking – Theodore Roethke
Apostrophe
Shake It Off music video 
Stars – Richard Dyer – Aff Link 
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