Thematic echo
Sonnet 12
Sonnet 12 surfaces in one Taylor Swift song, through thematic echo.
Appears in 1 song
Associated with William Shakespeare
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
The Tortured Poets Department · 2024
“as the decade would play us for fools”
Uncle Jerry quotes Shakespeare's Sonnet 12 as part of a broader argument that Taylor's personification of time ('the decade would play us for fools') connects to Shakespeare's sustained treatment of time as a reaping, destroying force across the sonnets. He proposes 'William Taylor Swiftspear' as a potential thesis title comparing the two writers' treatments of time.
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