Recommending Poems Based on Songs in Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department
April 20, 2024
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as posted by the channelTaylor 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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Hungry for some poetry analysis?
Wallace Stevens "The World as Meditation"
T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land"
Sir Philip Sidney "Astrophil & Stella"
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