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Taylor's Shift to Geospatial Analysis: A Place in this World
Word Cloud with the Lyrics: The Basics: The verses of A Place in this World depict a narrator who is seeking despite not knowing precisely what she hopes to find. She opens the song by stating: “I don’t know what I want.” According to the chorus, the only thing she does know is that she’s “alone, on [her] own.” She repeatedly states “I’m just a girl Trying to find a place in this world.” References to sunshine and rain hint at Swift’s mixed emotions towards her search. Lite
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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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