Superficial Celebrity Criticism in Shake It Off

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 (poetryfoundation.org/articles/157311/taking-st…)
Dr. J. Don Vann (dentondickensfellowship.com/about-us/dr-j-don-…)
A Handbook to Literature – William Harmon & Hugh Holman – Aff Link (amzn.to/4bGmxMQ)
Goblin Market – Christina Rossetti (poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market)
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women – Alice Duer Miller (poets.org/poem/why-we-oppose-pockets-women)
Anaphora (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/anaphora)
Metonymy (britannica.com/art/metonymy)
Onomatopoeia (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/onomat…)
Epizeuxis (litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/epize…)
Polyptoton (litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/polyp…)
Tautological (vocabulary.com/dictionary/tautological)
The Waking – Theodore Roethke (poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/the-waking-56…)
Apostrophe (litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/apost…)
Shake It Off music video (youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM&list=RDnfW…)
Stars – Richard Dyer – Aff Link (amzn.to/4pHbzNf)
The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fnP9Eoffzj1LWv…)

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