The Swiftie and The Scholar

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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Angela finally introduces Uncle Jerry to a pivotal track 5 from Taylor Swift’s discography—You’re On Your Own, Kid. They discuss the real life events that could have inspired the song and Uncle Jerry talks about other pieces of pop culture that tell a similar story.

Works Cited:
Anaphora
Colloquial diction
Dramatic irony
Free indirect discourse
Verbal irony
Auditory imagery
Metonymy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain – Aff link
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri – Aff link
Sonnet 73 – William Shakespeare
The Great Escape (1963)
Li'l Abner
Parataxis
Father and Son – Cat Stevens
Keep a-Goin’ – Frank L. Stanton 
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In this episode, Uncle Jerry and Angela tackle The Great War from 2022’s Midnights. Uncle Jerry wrestles with the idea of using a horrific event as a metaphor, and he teaches all about the many floral symbols used throughout the poem.

Works Cited:
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady – Edith Holden – Aff Link
The Great War and Modern Memory – Paul Fussell – Aff Link
The Strange Destiny of Rupert Brooke Hardcover – John Lehmann
Siegfried Sassoon
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: The Memoirs of George Sherston – Siegfried Sassoon – Aff Link
Goodbye to All That – Robert Graves – Aff Link
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
War Poems – Wilfred Owen – Aff Link
Dulce et Decorum Est – Wilfred Owen
Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology – Tim Kendall – Aff Link
The Soldier – Rupert Brooke
In Flanders Fields – John McCrae
The History and Rhymes of the Lost Battalion – Buck Private McCollum – Aff Link
Crimson & Clover – Tommy James and the Shondells
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