Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department' is here. Is it poetry? This is what experts say

But just how poetic is it? Is it even possible to close read lyrics like poems, divorced from their source material?Allison Adair, a professor who teaches poetry and other literary forms at Boston College, says yes.

Swift surprises fans hours after the release of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ with 15 additional tracks“It’s proper to talk about every songwriter as a poet,” says Michael Chasar, a poetry and popular culture professor at Willamette University. 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.

“From the perspective of harnessing particular poetic devices, this kind of trucks in familiar metaphors for one’s emotional state,” Chasar says of “Fortnight.”

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