We are getting angry and witchy today with mad woman from Taylor Swift’s 2020 album, folklore. Uncle Jerry teaches us where the word hysteria comes from, how women have been written about for centuries, and how sometimes, we make our own monsters.

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Works Cited:

The Madwoman in the Attic – Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar – Aff Link

In Medias Res: Definition and Examples To Start a Story in the Middle

Dramatic Monologue

Orion and Scorpius

The Mourning Bride – William Congreve

Summa Theologica – Thomas Aquinas

Handlyng Synne – Robert Manning of Brunne

Christian Caldwell, Woman Witchhunter

Cassandra x mad woman x I Did Something Bad

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We have a much-requested poem for you in this episode! Uncle Jerry and Angela tackle The Albatross from The Tortured Poets Department, but first, Uncle Jerry lets us all know how disappointed he is with us as a class lololol. Oops! Join us as we discuss relationships in the public eye, and the journey of repudiation and redemption the song takes us on.

Works Cited:

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Aubrey & Maturin – Jack O’Brian

Book of Jonah

Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Ode to the West Wind – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wild nights - Wild nights! – Emily Dickinson

Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

Antigone – Sophocles

Antony and Cleopatra – William Shakespeare

The Bad Seed – William March – Aff Link

The Bad Seed (1956)

Matthew 13

The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell – Aff Link

Richard Traverner

Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope – Aff Link

Doggerel

L'Albatros – Charles Baudelaire

Frame Stories

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Join us today for some lighthearted fun as we discuss Opalite from 2025’s The Life of a Showgirl. When Taylor Swift made this song a single and gave us the most perfect music video in the history of music videos, I felt like we had to cover it.

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Works Cited:

How to Write a Dizain

Iambs

Trochees

Pluperfect tense

Possession – A.S. Byatt – Aff Link

About Time (2013)

Brooklyn (2015)

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