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Taylor Swift is known for her chart-topping pop hits and glittering performances, but did you know she\u2019s a master of literary references? With her 12th album,\u00a0The Life of a Showgirl<\/em><\/a>, out today, here’s a look back at some of the surprisingly literary layers to her past album lyrics. (It\u2019s like going back to English class, but more fun.)<\/p>\n

Listen along with our The Swiftie Library playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. \u201cThe Road Not Taken,\u201d Robert Frost<\/h4>\n

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I\u2014
\nI took the one less traveled by,
\nAnd that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert Frost, \u201cThe Road Not Taken\u201d (read the full poem at\u00a0poetryfoundation.org<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Swift alludes to this famous Robert Frost poem several times. In particular, she returns to the phrase \u201cthe road less traveled by\u201d in two songs: \u201cThe Outside\u201d (2006) and \u201cillicit affairs\u201d (2020). In the earlier song, she sings that she fruitlessly \u201ctried to take the road less traveled by \/ But nothing seems to work out the first few times.\u201d And in \u201cillicit affairs,\u201d she gives the phrase a double meaning in the context of infidelity, as both the literal \u201croad less traveled by\u201d and a choice the narrator most likely regrets. Swift also nods to the poem in her 2020 song \u201c\u2018tis the damn season,\u201d when she sings \u201cI\u2019m staying at my parents\u2019 house \/ and the road not taken looks real good now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The first edition cover of The Great Gatsby<\/em>, illustrated by Francis Cugat<\/p><\/div>\n

2. The Great Gatsby<\/em>, F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/h4>\n

Few writers capture glamour and tragedy like Fitzgerald, and Swift borrows from him often. In her 2020 song \u201chappiness,\u201d she sings, \u201cI hope she\u2019ll be a beautiful fool,\u201d echoing Daisy Buchanan\u2019s famous line: \u201cI hope she\u2019ll be a fool \u2014 that\u2019s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.\u201d Even Fitzgerald\u2019s motif of the \u201cgreen light\u201d finds reference: \u201call you want from me now \/ is the green light of forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other songs, she references the extravagant parties Gatsby is most famous for. In the 2017 song \u201cThis is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things\u201d she sings, \u201cIt was so nice throwin’ big parties \/ Jump into the pool from the balcony\/ Everyone swimmin\u2019 in a champagne sea \/ And there are no rules when you show up here\/ Bass beat rattling the chandelier \/ Feelin\u2019 so Gatsby for that whole year.\u201d And while less explicit, Swift\u2019s 2020 song \u201cthe 1\u201d hints at a touch of Gatsby with \u201cRoaring twenties, tossing pennies in the pool,\u201d as she ponders on what could have been with a lost love.<\/p>\n

3. Jane Eyre<\/em>, Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/h4>\n

Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s influence on Swift is unmistakable. The\u00a0extended metaphor<\/a>\u00a0in the 2020 song \u201cinvisible string\u201d echoes a line spoken by Mr. Rochester in\u00a0Jane Eyre<\/em>. In the novel, he says: \u201cI sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you \u2014 especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.\u201d Her 2022 song \u201cDear Reader\u201d is likely another nod to the work, referencing one of the most famous lines in English literature, straight from Jane Eyre<\/em>: \u201cReader, I married him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, Taylor Swift\u2019s songs frequently explore the trope of the scorned woman \u2014 a topic shared with Bront\u00eb\u2019s novel. Indeed, the song \u201cmad woman,\u201d which immediately follows \u201cinvisible string\u201d on the\u00a0Folklore<\/em>\u00a0album, channels Rochester\u2019s hidden first wife with its exploration of female rage.<\/p>\n

4. Rebecca<\/em>, Daphne du Maurier<\/h4>\n

In an\u00a0interview with Apple Music<\/a>, Swift confirmed that her 2020 song \u201ctolerate it\u201d was inspired by du Maurier\u2019s haunting Gothic novel: \u201cWhen I was reading\u00a0Rebecca<\/em>\u00a0by Daphne du Maurier, I was thinking wow, her husband just tolerates her. She\u2019s doing all these things and she\u2019s trying to impress him, and he\u2019s just tolerating her the whole time…And so I ended up writing this song \u2018tolerate it,\u2019 that\u2019s all about loving someone who is ambivalent.\u201d The protagonist\u2019s devotion to her distant, dismissive husband mirrors Swift\u2019s lyric: \u201cI know my love should be celebrated \/ but you tolerate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. \u201cThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner,\u201d Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/h4>\n

In Coleridge\u2019s lyrical ballad, an innocent albatross is shot down by a sailor and becomes a metaphor for the psychological burden the sailor feels from his guilt. In her 2024 song \u201cThe Albatross,\u201d Swift reclaims the metaphor: she, and women in general, become the albatross, who leads the ship out of a deadly storm only to be killed and blamed for others\u2019 destruction: \u201cI\u2019m the albatross \/ I swept in at the rescue \/ The devil that you know \/ Looks now more like an angel \/ I\u2019m the life you chose \/ And all this terrible danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“The Albatross about my Neck was Hung” in an etching by William Strang from the 1896 edition of Samuel Taylor Colridge’s “The Ancient Mariner”<\/p><\/div>\n

6. The Lake Poets<\/h4>\n

Swift shows her love of the Romantic movement again in her 2020 song \u201cthe lakes,\u201d referring to the Lake District in England, where English Romantic writers like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived. Her opening line hints at the Romantic movement: \u201cIs it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?\u201d And in the chorus, she sings, \u201ctake me to the lakes where all the poets went to die…Those Windermere peaks look like the perfect place to cry.\u201d (Windermere is a large lake in the Lake District.) She even puns on Wordsworth\u2019s name: \u201cI\u2019ve come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze \/ Tell me what are my words worth.\u201d<\/p>\n

7. The Sun Also Rises<\/em>, Ernest Hemingway<\/h4>\n

Hemingway\u2019s 1920s novel ends with this powerful, bittersweet scene: \u201c\u2018Oh Jake,\u2019 Brett said, \u2018We could have had such a damned good time together.\u2019 … The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. \u2018Yes,\u2019 I said. \u2018Isn\u2019t it pretty to think so?\u2019\u201d It must’ve left quite an impression on Swift because she directly echoes it in two songs: \u201cinvisible string\u201d and \u201cthe 1.\u201d Both songs play with the wistfulness of what might have been.<\/p>\n

8. Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>, Lewis Carroll<\/h4>\n

Swift tumbles down the rabbit hole in her 2014 song \u201cWonderland.\u201d In addition to the obvious reference in the title, she calls out some of the most iconic moments in Carroll\u2019s book, singing \u201cTook a wrong turn and we \/ Fell down a rabbit hole,\u201d \u201cDidn\u2019t you call my fears with a Cheshire Cat smile?,\u201d and\u00a0\u201cHaven\u2019t you heard what becomes of curious minds?,\u201d which evokes Alice\u2019s famous line, \u201cCuriouser and curiouser!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Cheshire Cat fades to a smile in Sir John Tenniel’s illustration from the 1865 edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

9. Peter Pan<\/em>, J.M. Barrie<\/h4>\n

The Boy Who Wouldn\u2019t Grow Up is also a recurring theme in several of her songs. In her 2020 song \u201ccardigan,\u201d Swift uses the metaphor of \u201cPeter losing Wendy\u201d to illustrate the feeling of growing out of young love, also hinting at the iconic scene of Peter Pan trying to catch his shadow with the line \u201cChasin\u2019 shadows in the grocery line.\u201d Swift once again refers to Barrie\u2019s work in her 2024 song \u201cPeter,\u201d making the metaphor even more explicit as an appeal to a partner who refuses to grow up \u2014 \u201cForgive me, Peter \/ My lost fearless leader…And you said you\u2019d come and get me but you were twenty-five \/ And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired \/ Lost to the \u2018Lost Boys\u2019 chapter of your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

10. The Scarlet Letter<\/em>, Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/h4>\n

Swift nods to Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s classic novel a few times in her discography. In her 2014 song \u201cNew Romantics,\u201d she sings about showing off \u201cour different scarlet letters,\u201d and in her 2008 song \u201cLove Story,\u201d the narrator calls herself a scarlet letter.<\/p>\n

11. Greek mythology<\/h4>\n

Swift\u2019s discography includes several references to Greek mythology, including \u201cAchilles heel\u201d in her 2012 song \u201cState of Grace\u201d and \u201cMidas touch\u201d in 2020\u2019s \u201cchampagne problems.\u201d She also alludes to the Trojan princess Cassandra, who was cursed by Apollo to see the future but never be believed, in her 2024 song \u201cCassandra,\u201d which features the chorus, \u201cSo, they killed Cassandra first \u2019cause she feared the worst \/ And tried to tell the town \/ So they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say \/ Do you believe me now?\u201d<\/p>\n

12. William Shakespeare<\/h4>\n

Finally, no library is complete without the bard himself, William Shakespeare. Taylor Swift nods to his work in several of her songs, most notably in \u201cLove Story.\u201d In the song, she writes a happier ending for Romeo and Juliet, starting \u201con a balcony in the summer air\u201d and ending with a joyous proposal.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not her only reference to Romeo and Juliet<\/em>. In addition to her extended reference to Coleridge\u2019s work in \u201cThe Albatross,\u201d Swift nods to one of the play\u2019s most famous lines when she says, \u201cA rose by any other name is a scandal.\u201d In the play, Juliet says of Romeo, \u201cWhat\u2019s in a name? That which we call a rose \/ By any other name would smell as sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it already looks like her new album has its share of Shakespeare references. Not only does the album contain a track titled \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d referring to the character from Hamlet<\/em>, but the album\u2019s cover also recalls Sir John Everett Millais\u2019s painting of Ophelia in the river.<\/p>\n

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Sir John Everett Millais\u2019s 1851\u201352 painting “Ophelia” (left) and the cover of The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> (right)<\/p><\/div>\n

Are there any literary references we missed? What songs are you most looking forward to in\u00a0<\/em>The Life of a Showgirl? We want to know! Share your thoughts and questions by tagging us @PlanetWordDC on social media.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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