The Tragedy of Miscommunication in Exile

Continuing along our folklore journey, this episode covers exile, the collaboration between Taylor Swift and Bon Iver. Uncle Jerry teaches us about different types of exile and how they appear across literature and folk tales. We then dig into the poem and Uncle Jerry admits to Angela that he almost cheated and listened to the song because he was so ready to hear how they spoke over each other.

Also, ICYMI, we will be finishing the entire folklore album. Stay tuned over the next few weeks as we tackle the remaining tracks and then do a comprehensive overview.

Song discussion starts at 19:12

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Works Cited:
Just Give Me a Reason – Pink ft. Nate Ruess (youtube.com/watch?v=OpQFFLBMEPI&list=RDOpQ…)
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri (poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/Danthome…)
Gilgamesh, Nature, and Civilization (litcharts.com/lit/the-epic-of-gilgamesh/themes…)
Paradise Lost – John Milton (poetryfoundation.org/poems/45718/paradise-lost…)
The Odyssey – Homer (classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html)
Exile of Ovid (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_of_Ovid)
Poems From Exile: Ex Ponto, Book I – Ovid (poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidExPont…)
*Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (amzn.to/4wEENho)
*Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (amzn.to/4cHlFrN)
*Ulysses – James Joyce (amzn.to/4zknQvb)
*Dubliners – James Joyce (amzn.to/4gCSdWh)
*A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce (amzn.to/4hH5Wwl)
Polyphony in Contemporary Literature (medium.com/common-sense-world/polyphony-in-con…)
Dramatic irony (litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/drama…)
Assonance (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/assona…)
Alliteration (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/allite…)
Iambic tetrameter (britannica.com/art/iambic-tetrameter)
Iambic trimeter (litcharts.com/lit/poetics/terms/iambic-trimeter)
Ballad meter or common measure (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/common…)
Synecdoche (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/synecd…)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(fabulist)
Epistrophe (litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/epist…)
The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fnP9Eoffzj1LWv…)

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