The Swiftie and The Scholar

Well, guys, we’ve really stressed Uncle Jerry out with this one. He went so deep on the folklore album as a whole that this episode focuses mostly on the prologue and how it sets up this new style of storytelling, different from all her previous albums. Hope you enjoy, and we’ll see you back here next week for Part 2!

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Works Cited:
*Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein 
Folklore (Taylor Swift album)
*Shakespeare's Sonnets & Poems – William Shakespeare
*Sonnets from the Portuguese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
*Astrophil and Stella – Sir Philip Sidney 
Semiotics
The Odyssey – Homer
Beowulf
Dryads
Hulder
Folklore prologue
Daddy – Sylvia Plath
Anecdote of the Jar – Wallace Stevens
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We’ve made it to the end of the folklore road! Join Uncle Jerry and Angela as they discuss this is me trying, where the duo finds some Typical Taylor, ambiguity, paradox, multiple meanings, and so much more. 
Come back for the next two weeks as we wrap-up discussion of the album as a whole.

Works Cited:
Couplets
Heroic couplets
Anaphora
Starship Troopers (1997)
Enjambment
Ellipsis
In medias res
The Odyssey – Homer
Caesura
Why I Write – Joan Didion
Simile
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Today we’re covering our penultimate folklore poem with Illicit Affairs. Uncle Jerry finds this song fits perfectly within the category of folklore, and shows us just how Taylor Swift’s use of language showcases the lack of love in this song.

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Works Cited:
Interlocutor
Imperative verb
Dramatic irony
The Book of Jonah
Synecdoche
The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
Aphorism
Assonance
Alliteration
*The Pleasure of the Text – Roland Barthes
Anaphora
Synesthesia
Sonnet 138 – William Shakespeare
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Did we finally find Uncle Jerry’s least favorite folklore poem? And maybe Angela’s too? In this episode, we dissect Peace from Taylor Swift’s 2020 album, and Uncle Jerry finds many paradoxes and double meanings, while struggling to find a window to crawl through into the narrative. 

Works Cited:
Paradox
Apostrophe
Synecdoche
I Would Die 4 U – Prince
You’ve Got a Friend in Me – Randy Newman
Easy Silence – The Chicks
Two Sleepy People – Fats Waller
Stuck in the Middle With You – Stealers Wheel
You Are My Sunshine – Jimmie Davis 
Standing In The Rain – John Paul Young
Standing In The Rain – Al Green
Standing In The Rain – Electric Light Orchestra
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Buckle up, folks. This is a long one! Invisible String is up next in our folklore canon, and Uncle Jerry showed up PREPARED. He and Angela chat through folktales about the red thread, handfasting ceremonies, and more before diving into the poem. They then get into a long and philosophical conversation about fate and predestination and Forrest Gump.

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Works Cited:
All in green went my love riding – e.e. Cummings
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Red thread of fate
Handfasting
Pope Innocent III and Handfasting
2 Kings 14:21 – 16 as the age of ascension
Epizeuxis
*The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Enjambment
Metanarrative
Synecdoche
Goddesses of Fate
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Caesura
Forrest Gump – Winston Groom
Forrest Gump (1994)
Design – Robert Frost
Hap – Thomas Hardy
Proverbs 16:33
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