Anonymous asked:

ok but now I need to know your thoughts on the taylor swift lyrics. what songs did you analyze and what were your thoughts on them????

Alright so first of all for context:

this was a lecture about the literary era of romanticism, so for most of that lecture we had been talking about the literary and philosophical concepts and ideas present in that era.

And then the professor went "ok so I am not a swiftie - I haven't even listened to her newest album yet - but I believe Swift's music greatly encapsulates a - simplified , pop-cultural - continuation of the ideas of romanticism in the modern day....so let's analyse some of her song lyrics-"

So he had us quickly look at a few song lyrics from different songs of hers, but the ones he stayed on longest - and the ones he had us do proper academic analysis of - were these from "My tears ricochet" from her Folklore album:

I have to note that these aren't my personal thoughts, I'm just recounting what happened in the lecture, and I'm putting this under a cut so that it isn't super long :

#i love love love how you checked your references on theories and everything #then proceeded to turn around and say New Romantics was from folklore or evermore #(its from 1989 but still ily bestie 💜)#and wow! extremely interesting and would love to see you talk more about philosophy stuff or whatever this was if you want!!!!#you sharing anything about stuff that interests you is always a good read!!!!#BUT what were YOUR personal thoughts on the songs? did yall listen to them or just look at the lyrics???

All Narrator Dialogue from Fischl's Domain

Fischl's domain/island really gave everyone a run for their money