The Swiftie and The Scholar

We are getting witchy today as we dive deep into The Prophecy from Taylor Swift’s 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department. Uncle Jerry teaches us about some specific references to tarot and the occult in literature, and how that shaped a few of his interests. Angela tells the story of a tarot reading that Taylor received from a friend, and how she thinks it inspired this song.
  
Works Cited:
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats – William Butler Yeats – Aff Link
Rosicrucian Fellowship
The Secrets of the Belline Oracle – Sylvie Steinbach – Aff Link
Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck
Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards – The Morgan Library
Visconti Sforza Tarot Cards Cards – Stuart R. Kaplan – Aff Link
Miniature Rider-Waite® Tarot – Pamela C. Smith – Aff Link
Rider Waite Gold Foil Tarot Deck – Aff Link
The Original Rider Waite: The Pictorial Key To The Tarot: An Illustrated Guide – A.E. Waite – Aff Link
Tarot Revelations – Joseph Campbell, Richard Roberts – Aff Link 
A to z Horoscope Maker and Delineator – Llewellyn George – Aff Link
A Treatise on the Astrolabe – Geoffrey Chaucer – Aff Link
Antithesis – Rhetorical Device
Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories – Isaac Bashevis Singer – Aff Link
The Miller’s Tale – Geoffrey Chaucer
Morphology of the Folktale – V. Propp – Aff Link
Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index
Taylor Swift’s Tarot Card Revelation Proves None of Travis Kelce Romance Was Accidental
Inclusio
The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix

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We’ve made it to the third and final episode of our beloved Folklore Love Triangle! We hope you’ve enjoyed this little series as much as we have. This episode dives into all the poetry and themes of cardigan, and then Uncle Jerry wraps up all the themes and questions and answers found in these three songs.

Works Cited:
Rashomon Effect
The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree – Karl G. Heider
Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction – Marina Lambrou – Aff Link
Disnarration and the performance of storytelling in Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore
The Blind Man and The Elephant
Split Narratives or Fragmented Narratives
Enjambment 
Epistrophe
Anaphora
The Longest Time – Billy Joel 
Love Stinks – The J. Geils Band
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We’re back for the second installment of the folklore love triangle! Uncle Jerry really changed his tune on these lyrics, both as a poem and as a song, while Angela notices some “teenage diction” that she’s never picked up on before. Come back next week to wrap this all up with us!

Works Cited:
Rashomon Effect
The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree – Karl G. Heider
Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction – Marina Lambrou – Aff Link
Disnarration and the performance of storytelling in Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore
The Blind Man and The Elephant
Split Narratives or Fragmented Narratives
Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson – Aff Link
Spoon River Anthology – Edgar Lee Masters – Aff Link
The Flowers of Evil – Charles Baudelaire – Aff Link
Flipped (2010)
Apophasis
Hyperbole
Book of Genesis

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Friends, it's finally here! Over the next three episodes, we are diving into our beloved Folklore Love Triangle. First up is August. Uncle Jerry begins by talking about the narrative of these three songs and how they are woven together across the album, and then we dissect the poem of August. 
These three episodes will all build on each other, and we’ll round out the discussion in week 3. 

Works Cited:
Rashomon Effect
The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree – Karl G. Heider
The Blind Man and The Elephant
Disnarration and the performance of storytelling in Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore
Split Narratives or Fragmented Narratives
Dramatic Irony
Kenning
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We are getting angry and witchy today with mad woman from Taylor Swift’s 2020 album, folklore. Uncle Jerry teaches us where the word hysteria comes from, how women have been written about for centuries, and how sometimes, we make our own monsters. 
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Works Cited:
The Madwoman in the Attic – Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar – Aff Link
In Medias Res: Definition and Examples To Start a Story in the Middle
Dramatic Monologue
Orion and Scorpius
The Mourning Bride – William Congreve
Summa Theologica – Thomas Aquinas
Handlyng Synne – Robert Manning of Brunne
Christian Caldwell, Woman Witchhunter
Cassandra x mad woman x I Did Something Bad

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