The Despair and Persistence of This is Me Trying

We’ve made it to the end of the folklore road! Join Uncle Jerry and Angela as they discuss this is me trying, where the duo finds some Typical Taylor, ambiguity, paradox, multiple meanings, and so much more.
Come back for the next two weeks as we wrap-up discussion of the album as a whole.

Works Cited:
Couplets (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/couplet)
Heroic couplets (thoughtco.com/heroic-couplet-definition-4140168)
Anaphora (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/anaphora)
Starship Troopers (1997) (imdb.com/title/tt0120201)
Enjambment (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/enjamb…)
Ellipsis (literaryterms.net/ellipsis)
In medias res (writingclasses.com/toolbox/ask-writer/what-is-…)
The Odyssey – Homer (classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html)
Caesura (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/caesura)
Why I Write – Joan Didion (nytimes.com/1976/12/05/archives/why-i-write-wh…)
Simile (poets.org/glossary/simile)
The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fnP9Eoffzj1LWv…)

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