The Swiftie and The Scholar

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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Today we return to Angela’s beloved Red era with State of Grace! Uncle Jerry surprises her with his excitement about the poem, and they go through all the ideas of love Taylor presents throughout the opening track.
And there’s gravy all over the plate!

Works Cited:
In medias res
Kinetic or kinesthetic imagery
Metonymy
Parallel structure
A Midsummer Night's Dream – William Shakespeare – Aff Link
Concrete Poetry
A to Z Horoscope Maker and Interpreter – Llewellyn George – Aff Link
Synecdoche
Synecdoche vs. metonymy
Litotes
The Literate Mode of Cicero's Legal Rhetoric – Dr. Richard Leo Enos Ph.D. – Aff Link
Manos: The Hands of Fate – (1966)
Hesiod – Richard Lattimore – Aff Link
Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun – William Shakespeare
Tricolon
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