Allusion
Keep Calm and Carry On
Keep Calm and Carry On surfaces in one Taylor Swift song, through allusion.
Appears in 1 song
So Long, London
The Tortured Poets Department · 2024
“kept calm and carried the weight of the rift”
Uncle Jerry reads the line as channelling the wartime British slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On", the stiff upper lip the speaker keeps up while a relationship comes apart.
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