Finding Life’s Meaning in Epiphany

<p>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. </p><p><br></p><p><em>*Links with an asterisk are affiliate links, which allow us to make a small commission on your purchase at no cost to you. Thanks so much for your support!</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Works Cited:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wilfred-owen"><u>Wilfred Owen</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/siegfried-sassoon"><u>Siegfried Sassoon</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57860/the-death-of-the-ball-turret-gunner"><u>The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner – Randall Jarrell</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=64&issue=5&page=29"><u>The Angels at Hamburg – Randall Jarrell</u></a></p><p><a href="https://poemanalysis.com/literary-device/vignette/"><u>Vignette poems</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44215/rhapsody-on-a-windy-night"><u>Rhapsody on a Windy Night – T. S. Eliot</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/trochee"><u>Trochees</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/iamb"><u>Iambs</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=296"><u>The Song of Hiawatha – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</u></a></p><p><a href="https://huntingthemuse.net/library/hemingways-iceberg-theory"><u>Ernest Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory</u></a></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/4qdxlZd"><u>*Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway </u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/caesura"><u>Caesura</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/parallelism"><u>Parallelism</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/synecdoche"><u>Synecdoche</u></a></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3THEBAn"><u>*The Things They Carried: The Classic Work of American Literature on War, Memory, and Storytelling –Tim O&#39;Brien </u></a></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/4wUrlH0"><u>*Man&#39;s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl </u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44750/sonnet-19-when-i-consider-how-my-light-is-spent"><u>Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent – John Milton</u></a></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fnP9Eoffzj1LWvQWstsaL5K1Q2eXiSoJUvNRaqcUpEY/edit?usp=sharing"><u>The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix</u></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Follow Us:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSwiftieandTheScholar"><u>Patreon</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@swiftieandscholarpod"><u>⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@swiftieandscholarpod"><u>⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/swiftieandscholarpod/"><u>⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.threads.com/@swiftieandscholarpod"><u>Threads</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/angelawyattmcdow"><u>⁠Angela’s Instagram⁠</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/drunclejerry/"><u>Uncle Jerry’s Instagram</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@angelawyattmcdow"><u>Angela’s YouTube Channel</u></a><br></p>