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Folklore
Memory, myth, and narrative voice
A turn inward — into story, memory, and imagined lives. The boundaries between narrator and subject begin to blur, as recurring imagery and layered perspectives create a world shaped as much by storytelling as by experience.
Songs
17 tracks
Patterns in this era
Motifs & Symbols
Cars · Alcohol · Door / Threshold · Water · Party · Digital Life · Ocean · Jewels
Themes
Business or Industry · Ambiguity · Storytelling · Female experience · Infidelity · Defiance · The nature of truth · What Might Have Been
Literary Devices
Rhetorical Device · Figurative Language · Sound Device · Narrative Device · Language & Diction
Literary References in this era
59 references
The Woman in White
Allusion · Thematic echo
La Llorona (Mexican folklore tradition)
Thematic echo
Bible — 1 Samuel 17 (David and Goliath)
Thematic echo
Frankenstein
Thematic echo
Konjaku Monogatari
Thematic echo
When I Was One-and-Twenty
Thematic echo
Unwed Fathers
Paraphrase
Game of Thrones
Thematic echo
The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)
Thematic echo
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Allusion
Aurora Leigh
Allusion
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Thematic echo
Tales from Shakespeare
Allusion
Aurora mythology
Allusion
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Thematic echo
The Great Gatsby
Thematic echo · Structural echo
Orion and Scorpius myth
Allusion · Thematic echo
The Mourning Bride
Allusion · Thematic echo
Jane Eyre
Thematic echo
Summa Theologica
Thematic echo
The Blind Men and the Elephant
Thematic echo
Summer Nights (Grease)
Thematic echo
Annie Hall
Thematic echo
The Longest Time
Allusion · Thematic echo
The Blind Man and The Elephant
Thematic echo
Nicomachean Ethics
Quote · Allusion
Kiss It Better
Allusion
A Red, Red Rose
Allusion
Echo and Narcissus myth
Thematic echo
Snow White (fairy tale)
Thematic echo
White Lady folklore tradition
Thematic echo · Allusion
Bible
Allusion · Thematic echo
Bible
Allusion
Bible
Allusion · Thematic echo
Banshee folklore
Thematic echo · Allusion
Lyrical Ballads
Thematic echo · Allusion
Sense and Sensibility
Thematic echo
The Last of the Mohicans
Thematic echo
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Thematic echo
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Thematic echo
A Rose for Emily
Thematic echo
The Scorpion and the Frog
Allusion · Thematic echo
Handlyng Synne
Thematic echo
Frankenstein
Thematic echo
Rashomon
Structural echo · Thematic echo
Beowulf
Structural echo
Bible
Allusion · Thematic echo
Catilinarian Orations
Structural echo
Peter Pan
Allusion · Thematic echo
Wuthering Heights
Allusion · Thematic echo
Stolen
Allusion · Thematic echo
The House of Fame
Thematic echo
The Blind Men and the Elephant
Thematic echo
Through the Looking-Glass
Thematic echo
La Morte Amoureuse
Thematic echo · Allusion
Midas myth
Thematic echo
Edinburgh Review (essays attacking the Lake Poets)
Thematic echo
Metamorphoses
Quote · Thematic echo
Perseus and Medusa
Thematic echo