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.

Superman is the final bonus track fromSpeak Now. We find Taylor Swift once again critiquing her own tendency to impose tropes from fiction onto her own life.

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.

The Basics Taylor Swift addresses Tied Together with a Smile to a young woman who doesn’t know (oh-oh) that she’s beautiful. In the...

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

Word Cloud with the Lyrics from Teardrops on My Guitar: The Basics: Taylor Swift is in love with Drew. Drew doesn’t know how Taylor Swift feels and tells her about his beautiful girlfriend. Taylor Swift reveals that he’s the reason for the teardrops on her guitar. Each verse of Teardrops on my Guitar starts with Drew performing an action: “Drew looks,” “Drew talks,” and “Drew walks.” Each action prompts two reactions from Taylor Swift: 1) a visible, deceptive response designe

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

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.