Happy New Year! With New Year’s Day on our episode release day, it only felt right to cover this masterpiece from Reputation. Uncle Jerry unknowingly connects this song with many others, blowing Angela’s mind once again.

We’re taking a short break after this episode, but we’ll see you back here in a few weeks with more poetry!

Works Cited:

Nine Princes in Amber – Roger Zelazny – Aff Link

When Harry Met Sally (1989)

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens – Aff Link

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway – Aff Link

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning – John Donne

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Merry Christmas! Sorry for the sad song choice, but it just felt right. We’re trudging down the road not taken with evermore’s ‘tis the damn season. Uncle Jerry isn’t so sure about this one at first, but he comes around by the end.

Works Cited:

Trope

Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

The Family Man (2000)

Frank Capra

Autofiction

Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger – Aff Link

The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost

Intertextuality

Fire and Ice – Robert Frost

Mending Wall – Robert Frost

Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe – Aff Link

You Can’t Go Home Again – Thomas Wolfe – Aff Link

Tis The Damn Season – Lyric Video

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This is one of our most requested episodes, and here it is, just in time for the holidays! Uncle Jerry picked up on something that Angela had never noticed in the poem, and they get into a bit of the Tay-lore about what inspired The Tortured Poets Department.

Works Cited:

e.e. cummings

The Fates of Greek Mythology

Just Kids – Patti Smith – Aff Link

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do – Neil Sedaka

Water Lilies – Claude Monet

T.S. Eliot

Misery (1990)

Synecdoche

Epistrophe

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