Mesmerising Mnemonics

You’ll be pleased to hear that I’ve cheered up a little since my last blog of bleakness 😁.  One of the things that has brought me some comfort is a joyous podcast that my cousin recommended to me which is the culmination of two of my loves: deep investigative thought and Taylor Swift.   It brings together a literary scholar and historian uncle, Dr Jerry Coates, and his devoted Swiftie niece, Angela Wyatt McDow, who each episode, dissect one of Taylor’s songs, drawing parallels from poetry, history and art.  It’s teaching me the names of lots of literary devices, helping me to see these songs with new depth and I also love witnessing the connection that Angela and her Uncle have.

It’s so respectful and fun, you can just see how much they value and appreciate each other. It’s delightful.

I binged the episodes over the Christmas break and one of them gave me an idea for a blog. It was actually an episode that was a bonus chat, not a song analysis, but Dr Uncle Jerry talked about how ..