About this episode

The episode explores deeper meanings in Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' through various literary lenses.

We’re taking it back to 1989 with the only Taylor Swift song Uncle Jerry knew before we started this project. Angela expected this to be a quick, simple episode, but Uncle Jerry found a lot of deeper meaning in the glitter gel pen poem. Works Cited: Catalog Poem Dr. J. Don Vann A Handbook to Literature – William Harmon & Hugh Holman – Aff Link Goblin Market – Christina Rossetti Why We Oppose Pockets for Women – Alice Duer Miller Anaphora Metonymy Onomatopoeia Epizeuxis Polyptoton Tautological The Waking – Theodore Roethke Apostrophe Shake It Off music video Stars – Richard Dyer – Aff Link The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix Follow Us: Patreon ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ Threads ⁠Angela’s Instagram⁠ Uncle Jerry’s Instagram

People in this episode

Hosts: Angela McDow, Dr. Jerry Coats

Topics covered

• celebrity criticism
• Taylor Swift
• deeper meaning
• music analysis
• poetry
• cultural commentary

Keywords

• Shake It Off
• Taylor Swift
• celebrity
• poetry
• music analysis
• cultural commentary
• literary devices

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Shake It Off, Goblin Market, Why We Oppose Pockets for Women, The Waking, A Handbook to Literature, Stars

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