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4.4 What do Shakespeare and Taylor Swift Have in Common?
audio essays 21/2/21 audio essays 21/2/21

4.4 What do Shakespeare and Taylor Swift Have in Common?

What’s a 400-year-old poem got to do with a 2012 breakup song? Well, more than you might think … This week I critically analyse and compare Shakespeare’s Sonnet 35 and Taylor Swift’s I Knew You Were Trouble. I discuss iambic pentameter, double standards, and the importance of analysing our pop culture.

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1.9 What Taylor Swift and Robert Browning Have in Common
audio essays 13/5/19 audio essays 13/5/19

1.9 What Taylor Swift and Robert Browning Have in Common

I’m very excited to bring you this week’s episode, which is all about pop/country icon Taylor Swift and mid-19th-century poet Robert Browning. In this episode I discuss the parallels between Browning’s 1842 poem My Last Duchess and Swift’s 2014 hit Blank Space.

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