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The Cold Does Bother Her Anyway: Inaccessible Men in Cold as You
Word Cloud for Cold As You The Basics Cold as You is the fifth song on Taylor Swift’s debut album — a slot that Swift generally reserves for a particularly emotional track. The previous song left our narrator yearning for A Place in this World. By the beginning of Cold as You, Swift has found a place, but it is cold, gray, and rainy. The verses depict an unhealthy relationship where one person seeks closeness (or any reaction) from another who is emotionally unavailable. Swi
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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.
Saint Stephen I just wrote you a paean: Signifier and signified in Hey Stephen
Swift, a philosopher of language, explores the relationship between a name and what it signifies by fully exploring the meaning of 'Stephen'
Swift's Theology of Noise Music in Our Song
In Our Song, noted music theorist Taylor Swift grapples with the question “What is Music?”
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