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Recommending Poems Based on Songs in Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department

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April 20, 2024

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Taylor Swift just released her new album, and your favorite poetry YouTuber has a lot of thoughts. While Taylor Swift channels her inner poet, why not channel yours and read some poems along with these new songs? Here come my poetry recommendations for each of the songs on "The Tortured Poets Department."

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MY RECOMMENDATIONS BY TRACK:

Fortnight - Portrait of a Lady by T.S. Eliot

The Tortured Poets Department - Do not go gentle into that good night By Dylan Thomas

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys - The Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath

Down Bad - Mariana by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

So Long, London - London By William Blake

But Daddy I Love Him - Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still by William Shakespeare

Fresh Out the Slammer - Woman: The Mad One by Gabriela Mistral

Florida!!! - Florida by Elizabeth Bishop

Guilty as a Sin - Guilt, Desire and Love by James Baldwin

Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me - The Crazy Woman by Gwendolyn Brooks

I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

lolm -Modern Love by John Keats

I Can Do It with a Broken Heart - Heart! We will forget him! by Emily Dickinson

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived - Daddy by Sylvia Plath

The Alchemy - Love's Alchemy by John Donne

Clara Bow - Fame by Charlotte Mew

The Albatross - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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You can learn more about me and my work with poetry here—

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Wallace Stevens "The World as Meditation"

T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land"

Sir Philip Sidney "Astrophil & Stella"

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