Finding Life’s Meaning in Epiphany - The Swiftie and The Scholar | Lyssna här

We are tackling one of the most underrated tracks from Taylor Swift’s folklore album, epiphany. The poem compares past war tragedies to 2020’s pandemic, and Uncle Jerry uses the poem to teach us about Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory.

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Works Cited:

Wilfred Owen

Siegfried Sassoon

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner – Randall Jarrell

The Angels at Hamburg – Randall Jarrell

Vignette poems

Rhapsody on a Windy Night – T. S. Eliot

Trochees

Iambs

The Song of Hiawatha – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ernest Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory

*Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway