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The title card from Taylor Swift's timeless music video. A woman with a 1940's style haircut looks at herself in a mirror, hands clasped.

Timeless: Taylor Swift's Art of Immortalization (Keatsian Ekphrastic Remix)

Known John Keats enthusiast* Taylor Swift expertly echoes Ode on a Grecian Urn by exploring the same themes with the same literary device in Timeless.

Swift Vengeance Waits: Picture to Burn

Word cloud for Picture to Burn: Words Taylor Swift ONLY uses in Picture to Burn: Obsessive, Redneck, Concerned, Planning, Stopping, Health Recap: Picture to Burn is Taylor Swift’s second song and first revenge anthem — the first foray into a genre that will become a Swiftian signature. In Picture to Burn, a narrator brainstorms how she will get revenge on a man from a past relationship, including spreading rumors to prevent him from dating her friends, dating all of his frien

Tim[e] McGraw: A Deconstruction of Music and Memory in Taylor Swift's first song

Swift’s first song, Tim McGraw, uses a complex structure to reflect on whether past relationships stay in the past or live on in memories.

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Diogenes the Dragon: Battling Cynicism in Long Live

We know from Swift’s later work that she was a noted scholar of Greek philosophy during this era of her life “You know how to ball / I know Aristotle” (So High School). It is thus worth digging into Swift name dropping a group of people who were deeply upset by her success – the world-denying philosophers known as the Cynics.