Finding Agency in Dear John

We’re back in our Speak Now era with Dear John. Angela explains the lore behind this quintessential track 5 from Taylor Swift, and Uncle Jerry talks himself into being a fan of this poem.

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Works Cited:
Dear John Letter (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_John_letter)
Agnes von Kurowsky (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_von_Kurowsky)
*A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway (amzn.to/3RBJpqc)
A Dear John Letter – Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky (youtube.com/watch?v=LMueKWzG0WE)
Dear John Letter – Whitney Houston (youtube.com/watch?v=7GIQ7UwZkuo&list=RD7GI…)
Epistolary frame (mythcreants.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-writ…)
Poetic Inversion (poemanalysis.com/literary-device/inversion)
Dramatic Irony (litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/drama…)
Metapoetry (mseffie.com/assignments/poem-a-day/metapoetry.…)
Metonymy (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/metonymy)
The Scholar-Gipsy – Matthew Arnold (poetryfoundation.org/poems/43606/the-scholar-g…)
The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fnP9Eoffzj1LWv…)

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