Taylor Swift has released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” But just how poetic is it? Is it even possible to close read lyrics like poems, divorced from their source material? The Associated Press spoke to four experts to assess how Swift's latest album stacks up to poetry. IS TAYLOR SWIFT A POET?Allison Adair, a professor who teaches poetry and other literary forms at Boston College, says yes.
In the verses, she says Swift “explodes the domestic,” and that fights up against the music, which is “literary.” Swift's lyrics, too, allow for multi-dimensional readings: “I touched you' could be physicality and infidelity in the song, Scala says, or it could mean it emotionally — as in, I moved you. Swift has long played with rhyme and unexpected rhythm. “She’ll often establish a pattern and won't satisfy it — and that often comes in a moment of emotional ache,' says Adair.
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