The Tragedy of Miscommunication in Exile

Continuing along our folklore journey, this episode covers exile, the collaboration between Taylor Swift and Bon Iver. Uncle Jerry teaches us about different types of exile and how they appear across literature and folk tales. We then dig into the poem and Uncle Jerry admits to Angela that he almost cheated and listened to the song because he was so ready to hear how they spoke over each other. 

Also, ICYMI, we will be finishing the entire folklore album. Stay tuned over the next few weeks as we tackle the remaining tracks and then do a comprehensive overview.

Song discussion starts at 19:12

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Works Cited:

Just Give Me a Reason – Pink ft. Nate Ruess

The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri 

Gilgamesh, Nature, and Civilization

Paradise Lost – John Milton

The Odyssey – Homer

Exile of Ovid

Poems From Exile: Ex Ponto, Book I – Ovid

*Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

*Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

*Ulysses – James Joyce

*Dubliners – James Joyce

*A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

Polyphony in Contemporary Literature

Dramatic irony

Assonance

Alliteration

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

Ballad meter or common measure

Synecdoche

Phaedrus

Epistrophe

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix

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