In this episode, we are tackling marjorie, a track from Taylor Swift’s evermore album from 2020. Uncle Jerry teaches us about sentimentalism in literature, and Angela blows his mind by telling him the real life Marjorie’s backstory.

Works Cited:

Aphorism

David Hume

Immanuel Kant

Sentimentalism

Sentimental Novels in Early American Fiction

The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie – Aff Link

Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded – Samuel Richardson – Aff Link

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – Aff Link

A Treatise of Human Nature Paperback – David Hume – Aff Link

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix

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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

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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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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We have a much-requested poem for you in this episode! Uncle Jerry and Angela tackle The Albatross from The Tortured Poets Department, but first, Uncle Jerry lets us all know how disappointed he is with us as a class lololol. Oops! Join us as we discuss relationships in the public eye, and the journey of repudiation and redemption the song takes us on.

Works Cited:

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Aubrey & Maturin – Jack O’Brian

Book of Jonah

Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Ode to the West Wind – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wild nights - Wild nights! – Emily Dickinson

Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

Antigone – Sophocles

Antony and Cleopatra – William Shakespeare

The Bad Seed – William March – Aff Link

The Bad Seed (1956)

Matthew 13

The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell – Aff Link

Richard Traverner

Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope – Aff Link

Doggerel

L'Albatros – Charles Baudelaire

Frame Stories

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