The Devastating Paradox of Hoax

In this episode, we are covering Hoax, the closing track from 2020’s folklore. Uncle Jerry starts out a bit iffy on his feelings about the poem, but talking through it with Angela helps him find extra meaning.

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Works Cited:
Anaphora (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/anaphora)
Ellipsis (britannica.com/topic/ellipsis)
Oxymoron (litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/oxymo…)
Polysemy (novlr.org/glossary/polysemy)
Parallelism (litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/paral…)
Paradox (litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/paradox)
Fatalism (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fatalism)
Faithless Love – Linda Ronstadt (youtube.com/watch?v=NGmUYlsXTD4)
i sing of Olaf glad and big – e.e. cummings (poets.org/poem/i-sing-olaf-glad-and-big)
To a Mouse – Robert Burns (poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/to-a-mouse-56…)
*Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (amzn.to/4wQ6Uua)
To a Louse – Robert Burns (scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/louse-seeing…)
Jonah 3 – Jonah Goes to Nineveh (biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah%203&…)
Synecdoche (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/synecd…)
Metanarrative (dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english…)
The Lord’s Prayer (lords-prayer-words.com/lord_traditional_king_j…)
The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fnP9Eoffzj1LWv…)

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