Jack Kerouac
American · 20th century
American novelist and key figure of the Beat Generation, known for his spontaneous, free-flowing prose style.
Connection to Taylor Swift
His continuous, unpunctuated prose style is compared by Uncle Jerry to the tumbling, enjambed quality of Taylor's chorus in Maroon, where language flows without stops to mirror the speaker's loss of control.
Notable Works
- On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur
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Context within the Archive
On the Road
Angela & Uncle Jerry compare the tumbling, unpunctuated flow of Maroon's chorus, where lines run together without stops, to the continuous, rolling language of Jack Kerouac's prose, particularly 'On the Road.' Uncle Jerry notes the language 'just flows and flows and goes and goes like life is a continuous rolling tumble, and you're almost not in control of it,' and wonders if Taylor is illustrating that she's not in control of the events.