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

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix

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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

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix

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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

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix

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