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A Defence of Poetry (literary criticism)

Appears in 1 song

Associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cold as You
Taylor Swift · 2006

I've never been anywhere cold as you

Angela invokes Shelley's critical principle that a single well-chosen word can constitute poetry, then applies it to Cold as You: the phrase "cold as you" earns its weight by being the well-chosen phrase the song is built around. The reference is structural to the song's craft reading rather than to its imagery.

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